Better than I thought it'd be (I thought it would be tremendous) www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIol...

The Rosalia album really does deserve every hosanna

Spotify has announced more in-depth song credits and a "SongDNA" feature powered by Whosampled, which they recently acquired

That thing where, if you can't find the book you *want* to read (in this case, Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald) anywhere in the house, then all the other books just feel *wrong*

SNOW! A lot of it! OK, stop now.

I hope people realise AI isn't going away if the AI bubble bursts, any more than the internet went away when the dotcom bubble burst.

Been looking forward all year to Chris Thile at the London Jazz Festival at the Barbican! Can't wait! Oh, it was last night.

Only now, some 40 years on, do I connect the writer of that short story with the author of Mythago Wood. Wow.

Reading a book that feels like it's set in the uncanny valley. It's meant to be contemporary, but a 20yo girl will keep lighting a silk cut and saying "Of course I'm not happy! I don't even exist! I made a bargain with God and I lost!"

Is the Prescott Report in the public domain yet? I.e. is there a way to read it without having to sign up to the Telegraph.

I realise audiobooks have made me a better reader: I now more clearly hear a voice when reading. And you can cast your own narrator in your minds ear: what would this sound like if Alex Jennings were reading it? Or Lydia Leonard. And so on

Bluesky search, JFC. Won't be searching for BBC again in a hurry.

Someone might read this and say "Hey, Where is Guys Like Me? Where is It's Not, where is You Do? Where is Freeway? Where is Little Bombs" But I say, Hey, there are enough amazing Aimee Mann songs to go around because the woman can do no wrong. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

If there were five better books than Helm this year…. Can’t wait to read them

Gah, seems from the H is for Hawk trailer they've binned all the T.H. White stuff. That's what made the book work! Cowards, etc

Getting turned away from a club and then accepting a lift "to some other club" from a pair of semi-professional drug-dealers.

The real problem here is of course: what to read next. I can see myself hurling a succession of slim autofictive novellas out the window til I find something that scratches the itch.

For the Shadow of the Colossus story, we interviewed 14 people including project leads Fumito Ueda and Kenji Kaido, hired Gravity Rush concept artist Takeshi Oga to illustrate the cover, and put together a 10,000-word story with help from @milkman.bsky.social @shmuplations.bsky.social and others.

My other opinion about books is that this poem by Fiona Benson is magnificent. 'Haunted little veterans'!

My principal opinion about books as objects is you should read this book about books as objects

annoyed about this all over again. you just hear them going 'Bill Nighy! Trebles all round!' and not 'is this actually going to work? Like, at all?'

Feel slightly bad for Maria Corina Machado. Every post about her win is really about someone else.

Would love to care about anything as much as British blueskiers care about who runs CBS News.

I finally got a chance to write one of my dream assignments, an in depth evaluation of Daniel Day-Lewis, an actor whose achievements and methods cast a long shadow over the field, and whose work is often misunderstood. slate.com/culture/2025...

Who is 'jay' and what is the bad thing they've done?

A more honest piece would have talked to people who live in the Chilterns, who live in fact in the Misbourne valley–like me!–and asked their opinion. Which would basically be partridge-shrug.gif

OMG it's Steven J. Lockjaw

Something very telling about Farage saying Reform would clean up next May, at "our equivalent of the mid-terms". Very America-brained.

Big piece in the Guardian yesterday about a girl suffering from "chronic Lyme disease", immediately thought of this brilliant piece: www.thecut.com/2019/07/what...

"Thessalie Wayward, a successful stage mentalist". He's still got it!

I'll be honest - it's not clear to me that this is AI www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwzc...

Brilliant piece on the casual erasure of of a female artist from a landmark moment in pop culture. And the answer to the question, Why don’t Peter Blake’s other album covers have the power and impact of Sgt. Pepper?

There is a genuinely extraordinary number of England flags in my (well-to-do, not poor, middle England) town. Where are they coming from?

You just know there's gonna be some ugly tweets from the good people of Bluesky

"Post a perfect album from the 90’s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam,Soundgarden or Alice In Chains"

Still, at least that means there's a vacancy for Amol Rajan

Oh. Twats have come to the despoiled hellscape of the Chilterns

Rewatching his Young People’s Concerts thinking, the perfect framing device was *right there* ’

And, just like that, he was gone. I'm choosing to believe* he went back down the plughole. * for the sake of my sanity

I’m putting rather a lot of faith in the whole ‘they can never climb out’ truism. He’s inching ever closer…

Had a massage. The music included Richter’s On the Nature of Daylight, which struck a weirdly tragic note. I mean, I’ve got knots, but they’re not… terminal?

Most discombobulating thing: people I know and love and even share a life with saying ‘wasn’t Hoult great?’

For the second year in a row, I’ve gone on holiday, to discover it’s warmer back in the UK.

Well that solves it:

In the grand scheme of things it’s nothing, but the time Unbound mistakenly sent me five copies of 42: The Douglas Adams Archive and then refused to take them back when I emailed them? Making more sense now

Going to delete some posts in case I find myself arguing about Christianity like some r/atheism dweller from 2010.

This is brilliant. Now I just need someone to do the first Pigeonhed record and my 90s bases are covered.

My 11yo is physically offended by me purporting to like PinkPantheress. Literally contorted with cringe.

I can't deny, this was the first *album* I was ever obsessed with. Basically wore out the cassette while painting Warhammer miniatures.

Watching Sinners again, and still think it’s incredibly slow to get going.