Today's progress

The most expensive bit of the garden, more than the pond, the bridge, the pots, the plants and the design combined, has been managing the goddamn endless water that plonks itself on top of of us for 8 months of the year

Rewatching The Leftover with the boys, and damn it's even better than I remember. It struck me that the UK needs a Guilty Remnant, dressed in white with 350m emblazoned in red on their chests, standing outside Brexit voters' homes smoking rolies :)

Hands down the best ice lolly on the planet

Cannot stress enough how wilfully irresponsible Ireland have been in this era of a big tech assault on our societies. Ireland has proved particularly vulnerable to radicalisation by algorithm, so chickens roosts etc www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Beds mulched

Placebo RE:CREATED, a less is more reworking of most of their debut album with a bunch of out there remixes of some album and ep songs from the period. Very nice way to revisit an album I played *alot* back in the day, but hasn't had much attention for a good couple of decades

I though Infantino was my least favourite character in the history of Football....then I saw him in the same shot as John Terry and my instinctive bubble sorter kicked in, and lo, turns out he's number two

Finally saw Mandalorian. Quite enjoyed it, harmless fluff miles better than Disney sequels even if it won't be troubling any best film lists. Appreciated the weirdly specific nods to Platoon and Apocalypse Now.

@anthonygladman.com im in the EDT for a couple of hours from half 12, catching up with Keef and Matt if you happen to be about

Every week we get a little closer to our haven of tranquility

Gelli Haha live on KEXP. Switcheroo one of my favourite albums of the year so far. Anyone whose quirky stage performances are partly influenced by Timmy Mallet is an instant hit with me www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWt4...

World Cup Analysis: The electric orange torporwave of Netherlands vibes the narrow streets of Amsterdam across the pitch in affectionate and repetitive passing homage, whilst Japan cedes the midfield as unworthy of tension or anxiety. Let us contest the ends if necessary, but yet with urgency.

The fabric of our society is under threat from lawlessness, say people dragging families out of their beds and burning down their homes......rigggght.

Garden beginning to take shape

Absolutely note perfect from @michaelspicer.bsky.social

today is a good day, Modest Mouse *and* a POLIÇA live album

Obligatory AI metaphor 😅

Modest Mouse have been offering diminshing returns since the excellent Good News.. started the rot. Success and comfort often unmoor artists. The new album returns to the existential angst of Lonesome.. and Moon.. and I really rather like it! First one I'll start again in some years..err..decades?

When your kids are grown up enough to cook you your birthday dinner and make a decent fist of it

is retro-melodic-breakbeat-techno-pop a genre? It probably is isn't it, totally congested one if you ask me....aaaanway, the quintessential example of remebrebepop, infectious, compelling and gives you the urge to hit repeat at the end. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbk7...

Excellent review of a film i haven't seen, with nods to Andor, that haunting presence of what might have been but will never be.

I trust any #5debutalbums2026 posters are thinking about 070 Shake

Eleventy-onety first day of Japanese

Ilford

First nice day of the year in Ireland and the new member of the family is settling into his new home (pot, whatever)

None the wiser where I should go about looking for the lip

I thought i might do the #20daybookchallenge but in one thread over a day or two with explanations cos roolz are for foolz. No particular order of books, or in some cases a series that I voraciously consumed, that loomed large or just stuck with me. Alt text for explanations...

The pond gets a waterfall or stream or something

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqJ1... We do love to complain about the modern world, but by 'eck shit was hard before

I love a good statgasm

FPTP is like The One Ring of politics in the UK. They know they need to destroy it, but once it's in their hands they think "Why shouldn't we keep it? We can use it for good!" and then everything goes dead-Boromir-shaped

Oooh, another surprise drop, Perfect Place by Irish folk duo, Lemoncello. As lovely as ever with an expanded palette and more ambitious scope. Another feather in the cap of contemporary Irish folk alongside Lankum etc

I see not a single mention of On Avery Island for #5debutalbums9599 which makes all of you wrong :) Overshadowed by it's younger sibling sure, but still fantastic.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxaX... blimey

AI, honestly.... Why i was searching the term "cookwank" is another story only residents of East Dulwich circa 2007 will understand.

I'm sorry, Broken Social Scene snuck in a new album without telling me?!?!?!?

came up on my 2021 playlist. A slice of jazzy joy for the morning www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5Rc...

It absolutely didn't. Brexit damaged the country and destroyed the party. Leadership reshuffles were a symptom of that damage, not a cause.

Literally in the newly released ufo files....well that's that then

I reckon if dogs had opposable thumbs and humanity left them (singularity, respiratory rabies, sublimed, triffids) they would cargo cult the shit out of cupboards. Wishing I was there for the octopoid archaeologists flame wars re whether cupboards served a practical or religious purpose.

Scavengers Reign is leaving Netflix soon. Higggghly recommend if younhavent watched it yet.

Can't believe in 4 years of driving this car through my gates, ive never noticed this cool view from the parking cameras before

Pond footprint marked out with the latest hosed based technological marvel

Colour in the garden again, at last

Recommend a sub

No turning back now

unityroom.com/games/track-... Learn Japanese whilst playing spot the difference

The message doesn't interest me so much as people posting pictures of blue sky posts rather than quote tweeting. weird. Feel free to see how deep it can go :D

Autumn 2027. Keir Starmer angrily orders an inquiry into why he wasn't told about correct procedure for hiring the adviser who managed the process for reassigning the civil servant who advised him on how Olly Robbins handled Mandelson. Andy Burnham has just lost his third byelection of the year.