oh wait does he call himself muad’dib bcz it sounds like mahdi? I never thought of this before

probably too late to start training but I’d like to ride a sandworm

quicky BSKY query: if i say "musician daryl dragon", do ppl know who that is w/o looking him up? say yes or no!

time to listen to a stuart cosgrove 1987 guide to HOUSE the article iirc was both ground-breaking & weirdly opaque -- SC had a rhetorical manner i never clicked with, but as an editor he gave me work (👍🏽) & tbf its a grebt playlist

thats right

ok magyar's a cat person but this is his cat 😬

“you young pup! YOU YOUNG PUP!” time I happily hugged someone as I called them this

I like the gloopy fireworks they have on giedi prime, theyre like explosive spittle 🎇🎆

big wet water-conserving fremen kiss yes I’m watching DUNE 2: MAUD’DOB DEE wot of it

glossu “mr beast” rabban: is this anything?

rip mike westbrook 😔 he shd make an LP w/lata & asha in heaven, id buy it (when i get to heaven myself obv)

another day where i got up earlier than planned* & it's gone way slower & been way fuller of STUFF-GOT-DONE than usual *(i even tried to have a nice sunday lie-in but turns out i wasnt having any truck with such nonsense)

is anyone NOT blockading the strait of hormus rn

rip asha bhosle 😔 sign im a big softie = i am delighted to confirm that the legendary rift with her sister lata mangeshkar was repaired decades ago (and some of the fun they latterly had together was enjoying when loyal fans didnt realise this & continued to take sides)

lol i bought a nice little bamboo stand to tidy up my external hard-drives & the larger maxtor of course doesnt fit in it so the "tidying up" is as always a gimcrack chaos of difft containers

"TON 618 (abbreviation of Tonantzintla 618) is a hyperluminous, broad-absorption-line, radio-loud quasar, and Lyman-alpha blob[2]…, with the projected comoving distance of approximately 18.2 billion light-years from Earth.[a] It contains one of the most massive black holes ever found… "

idly wondering if I shd learn japanese when I retire (pension starts in september)

choice between big clean-up & re-org of my whole flat (much-needed) & in sitting on the sofa in the bright warm sun as it streams thru the window ☀️ maybe it will be raining 2moro

right so it turns out this may be a (currently v mild) case of DUPUYTREN'S CONTRACTURE warning: the online images of non-mild cases are not a cheery sight. GP referred me to a specialist but warned (defn of a mixed blessing lol) that it maynt yet be severe enough for specialist to agree to see me

absolutely reading this with an infamous tweet in mind

ok I have to sleep I will never find out how this inflatable front porch works

The Boys is better than Dilbert.

i like how wikipedia editors always find a way to mention linux. even in articles you didn't think it could possibly come up

just discovered im reading the tonantzin & diana villasenor origin story! (= children of palomar) 😮👍🏽😃 (there's a bunch of L&Rs after the hiatus, late-90s early-00s, that i'm only now catching up with) (of course tonantzin has green eyes!)

disappointment is when u see some lovely-looking biscuits youd forgotten abt in the wrong drawer & then realise theyre actually packs of aeropress filters

my mum had this hair-do round this time not saying shirley maclaine copied her but my obvious assumption is shirley maclaine copied her

here's the thing: bowie may well be “problematic” yes but “the spectator" is way way worse (is it worse than kanye west? also yes obviously)

a thing that sometimes happens when yr editing a text is you think "this writer always uses THAT when THIS wd be clearer" so you routinely sub in THIS & then you start thinking is this just make-work tinkering on my part? does it make a difference?

most important research discovery of the day: there's a sauce called "shrewsbury sauce" there's also shrewsbury cakes (which we sometimes had at school, for 70s school food they were ok i guess) and shrewsbury biscuits (recipe similar to the cakes except when it isn't, boring either way)

it's weird how getting up just 30 mins earlier than usual adds SO MUCH TIME to the day, even when 30 mins of that time is at the doctor's (something more annoying than worrying, don't panic) (or celebrate lol), and also even when yr sleepy all day as a result of the upset

time to start working (= stop perusing the reddit thread abt symbolism in the flags of made-up countries in the tintin universe) 😔 tbh i hate this time

nothing renders me more uncharitable than the mandela effect: no you are inattentive and your memory is rubbish!

abt to post irritably that trumps worst crime is causing ppl i have time for to baudrillard-post 👎🏽 except i checked just in time & the offending quote was from society of the spectacle lol 👍🏽 jean baudrillard: the politics-free simulacrum* of guy-ernest debord *(except not in a good way)

la lampo plej malbongusto

tintin update: TIL that the dictator in the calculus affair (marshall kûrvi-tasch, a reference to facial hair) is called, in the original french version, maréchal plekszy-gladz, a pun on plexiglass (this is a book where much glass gets broken I guess)

when yr editing a music book and the writer says "evinced" 🚨 (author french tbf, this is on the translator)

taken out of my work by the song currently playing: what's this feeble shit? it was saja boys! = the WEAK LINK in the KPD-hunters movie, conceptually & narratively & musically. yes the girl band is terrific as music but the film is mid bz their foes are weedy & make no sense as lore or as sociology

detonating the platonic ideal of a 2025 tidal alg playlist with the platonic ideal of a deprecated pop smash so far since the smash we hit “ordinary” 👍🏽 gracie 👍🏽👍🏽 "i choose to blame your mom" 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽 & look! the demon hunters are visible in a few songs time

lol

where are the anti-war protests, which we denigrated while they were more visibly happening, this time around? and why are college campuses, which students now know will throw them under the bus even to the point of passively facilitating their deportation, so quiet?

why did this fact impinge on my anxious brane 🧠 as i tried catch some sleep last night? i think bcz i read that there may be as many as a TRILLION rogue planets in our hood (the milky way) -- thats too many rogue planets etc etc

laswell was my first ever cover story (the wire jan 1986), when he was riding high creatively -- GFM has so far raised more than 4 x the initial ask, which is heartening, but if he ever overlapped with yr interests… www.gofundme.com/f/support-bi...

“The odds of a rogue planet entering the solar system, much less posing a direct threat to life on Earth, are slim to none with the odds being about one in one trillion within the next 1,000 years [7]”

down the rabbit-hole of the CADAVER SYNOD and five popes in 2 years (one for 20 days, another just 15) (15 days is also how long I would do shd a vacancy arise)

Called it

ooh must get hold of this -- i interviewed MG for the wire in the late 80s back when the world was young

update: they find the dog (it went to greenwich)

time to listen to kim wilde, the synth-pop angine de poitrine with vocals but no quartertones

this is why the aliens from aliens were mad at us