Turf!

Ketchup incoming.

My mum just sent me these from near where she lives. They usually get off lightly in storms.

The Big Man surveying his kingdom. It's just a wee bit too windy for him to patrol it. 🤣

#musicsky Ash, Zarathustra I'll forgive them the Spinal Tap opener here because Ad Astra is a damn good album. ✊

Power and phone signal just back on after Storm Amy. The entire Clogher Valley was off from 4pm yesterday. There was one genuinely scary gust (and the power went off soon after).

#musicsky Ash, Hallion From the new album.

In memoriam...

Ava’s school friend Is taking part in a charity walk, let's give him a boost. Thanks Gang. fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/joshua-...

What's that? You were wondering how and where Swing Out Sister's top 5 jazz-inflected synth pop hit from 1986 fits in the scheme of UK electronic music? Well, when explanations make no sense...

Schools closed from midday here because of the coming storm. Ominous. I get so much anxiety during storms these days it's unreal. I'm a wreck already.

Berlin

13 days to go until the only album you'll ever need* is released! youtu.be/rrO63cYDA2I *this is not true.

Guys I really need some practical help with setting up a go fund me for help with taking action against a rogue landlord and moving costs I don’t know how to do it and I’m trying to organise about 10 different things at once at the moment and I’m struggling Any help would be appreciated please 🙏

#musicsky Pale Blue Eyes, The Park New PBE single alert!

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

Also! Sir, You Are Being Hunted is on sale in the Steam Autumn sale, and there is no more autumnal experience than fleeing between the hedgerows chased by tweedy British robots. And hey, it's a game you should probably own if you like anything I have ever done.

#musicsky Wet Leg, Ur Mum Best scream. ✊

To be fair, I did some gigs in Dubai in 2019 and felt a crushing sense of my own hypocrisy, performing for awful British expats in a city built on slavery and exploitation. Luckily, I'm back in London now where... um... anyway...

Today's find. Even though I've always been a massive OG fan - I bought the EPs on release - I've never owned Cuckoo. Until today.

I got a reply from the BBC today. Make of it what you will.

New Order, Blue Monday 95 (Hardfloor Mix) This is the best remix of a song I've ever heard. Even now it brings back feelings of being on a dancefloor at the time and everything just building and building until the ecstatic finale. How does it feel? Like a 30th anniversary re-release actually. 😋

For a laugh, I used to tell people that Chuck D's real name was Charles Durning...

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Sarah Morgan, contemporary UK printmaker #WomensArt

Age yourself with a film you saw in the cinema as a kid.

If you see people having fun discussing horror movies, don't do this. It's not witty. It's not helpful, and it's certainly not original. At best, it's INCREDIBLY annoying, and at worst, it sounds like you're shaming someone for daring to not think about politics 24/7. Either way, you're an asshole.

Sean Penn looks like Wile E. Coyote after a TNT mishap

Whatever tiny victories and the resulting dopamine rush they feel they get won't ever fill the hole in their lives. They'll never realise this.

#musicsky Snapped Ankles, Tailpipe As close to prime Fall as we'll get, these guys. Sublime.

Combine 2 Film Titles 2 make a New Film. The Unbearable Lightness Of Being John Malkovich

Share an 80's TV series you love

They're all trolls. Tommy Robinson thugs, Trumpists, Reform supporters, the entire 21st century far-right fascist movement is 100% based on trolling. Trolls cannot be reasoned with on any level. They can only be destroyed. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Weird. I think I might be allergic to *some* cats. Not mine, fortunately, but I briefly patted the neighbour's cat and my hand immediately went up like this. Getting quite itchy. Other hand's fine. 😕

As good a reason as any to give this reminder.

Chatting about stone circles with a mate, as you do on a saturday morning, I reminded myself of The Modern Antiquarian. Copey on fine form.

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We've already got a digital ID that shows you can work legally, your NI number. Companies all submit PAYE online now, so there is no need for this scheme. It's a dangerous consolidation of personal data, a waste of money and it won't stop people who already break the law from continuing to do so.

The terrorism case against Kneecap rapper Mo Chara (Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh) has been thrown out by the chief magistrate sitting at Woolwich Crown Court following a technical error in the way the charge against him was brought. jrnl.ie/6827726

Everything I've heard from this so far has been excellent ✊

Ruin a book with a car: A Tale of Two Cities

Ruin a book with a car: Fahrenheit 405

#musicsky Suede, It Starts & Ends With You As comeback singles go, only Blondie's Maria tops this for me. ✊

If you see this, quote post a bridge

The best pictures we'll see today ♥️

#90sTop30 Starts 1st November. Select your thirty favourite songs released in the 90s and post one song per day throughout November. If you suffer from omissions guilt, you can post any songs that didn’t make your thirty (but you wanted to include in some way) throughout the month of October.

WOW!! The Cure, MBV and Slowdive on this bill what??!!!

#vinegarwatch 48 hours later and it's starting to do its job. Far quicker than glyphosate but I'm now concerned that it's not gone down to the roots.

He's here!! The Rapture has begun, and it's starting at Divis Taar!