ARCADES. THE IDEAL CLIMATE MEDIATOR AND GENERAL CONTRIBUTOR TO OVERALL URBANITY. MORE PLEASE, TA.

You think you know a channel.

every time you've ever blinked you missed a celebrity cameo appearance

these days, computer companies such as microsoft are turning megabytes into megabucks

The problem with Ambient Music is that for most people, granular samples or synth pads washed in reverb are too far from normal music to sit unobtrusively in the background. In practice something more like Oasis or late period RHCP calls less attention to itself and in that way is much more ambient.

Going to start posting like this

The guy who named walkie talkies should've named more stuff. We should have forced him to do that. "Name trees now, what are trees called," we should've yelled at him as he cowered in fear

Images from "Pyramids: Special Economic Vortex Zones of North America" by American photographer Ian James, 2010s-20s, who spent a decade traveling around the US and Canada documenting pyramid structures, which he sees as "energetic sites of late capitalism".

BREAKING NEWS: Lake Havasu 4th of July Boat Crash

night club crooner belting out what seems to be an original song until the final verse where it's revealed to have been New York, New York all along

A single grain of evening found my tongue, And named me the boy the brambles chose to spare. The brambles kept the frightened prayers I flung Like startled birds into the cooling air. Though years have clothed my bones in steadier poise, The weeds still know the smallness of that boy. #vss365

Shot a salted seabird. The albatross is dead. #anagrams

Chocolate is not a driving snack. It is for the still and swaddled, not those in motion. It doesn't belong on the road. Out here we worship the fizzy, the sour, the chew. I'm 200 miles from home with a bag of tangfastics, witness me.

One of the lesser-seen meanings of "surreal", compared with: 1. tasteful art featuring electric fans, newspapers, etc; 2. when a celebrity works with a more famous celebrity, and are invited to describe this occurrence.

Now that social media is being banned for young people, they will have more time to spend in the UK's well funded libraries, youth clubs, and other third spaces, or in the parks and shopping centres where they are welcomed and viewed with trust and positivity.

Whenever I head into London, I always try to press play on the skyline.

I know not what characters Kingdom Hearts 4 will be fought with but Kingdom Hearts 5 will be fought with the Bash Street Kids

THEATRE (Palindrome-by-Pairs) See a play I'm in — Adhere! A theatre! A theatre! Head in — I may please....

Becoming a favourite of the year. The sleeve art almost wrongfoots you, opening up the categories. Elori Saxl + Henry Solomon - Seeing is Forgetting (2026) elorisaxl.bandcamp.com/album/seeing...

variety is actually a bunch of different stuff of life

I find the oddity of this reassuring, like something that only occurred because a butterfly flapped its wings in Japan - Donna Summer’s ‘I Feel Love’ owes some of its genesis to Anthony Powell. (This may be common knowledge) From chapter 2 of Elizabeth Alker’s ‘Everything we do is music’

Crystal Palace TV tower lit up to celebrate Palace’s Europa Conference League victory #cpfc

Disgraceful post — report this man! (And whatever you do, don't read it!)

Me on "Backrooms" and "Exit 8" (and, tangentially, on "The Way Inn"): apollo-magazine.com/backrooms-fi...

Jony Ive’s design for the new Ferrari Luce is okay until you have to charge it —

SOCCER TIPS AND TRICKS USMNT.MP4

The original “Star Wars” film opened 49 years ago today and almost five decades later it seems “the Force” is still with this franchise with the new film “Mandalorian and the Grogu” taking today’s audiences back to “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away….” #Sponsored #Grogu

No, that's sponges.

The darts referee said, "I don't shout 'one hundred and eighty', I shout 'pi'" I said, "that's rad!"

Pokemon Grogu The Polls

Like some kind of magnet for free improvisation fans in the environs, we'll be in Cambridge tonight for footage, chat and live music. Come!

Obsessed with this dreadful AI-powered Facebook page about British comedians that formats every image as if it's a quote from the comic themselves:

Two tickets have just become available on this Saturday's walk exploring the Lost Street of the Barbican, and the transformation to the place we see today. Details and booking here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-lost-s...

An audio miracle! Thank you to the CBC and ABC podcast teams for bringing back this series. Viva "Short Cuts"! podnews.net/press-releas...

Maybe someone should ask to speak to the Board of Managers

remember when Alex Salmond flew to Macedonia, tried to open a bottle of tomato ketchup, and died

I'm glad so many people have connected with my (ridiculously long) thread. I was unsure whether to post about it today. My long-term followers may have guessed that Mouse & Toad are two people I'm writing about for my new book, which is all about different minds, & monsters, & wonder.

Must people know that Aphex Twin aka was the first artist to make music using a desktop computer. But what people don’t know is that he initially did it as a joke! Always the prankster, he wanted to see if his fans would notice. They did, but they also loved it. So he kept using that desktop PC!

Opportunity for composers! 🎼 @nonclsscl.bsky.social is looking for 4 UK-based composers with a unique artistic voice and development potential to join nonclassical AIR (artists-in-residence) in 2026. Details here: www.nonclassical.co.uk/nonclassical...

'The Print Seller's House', Clapton (2025) by Chris Thompson instagram.com/cthompson_art

One for @annodracula.bsky.social.

Despite being released in 1998, 'The Truman Show' is a 1999 film. This point needs no elaboration or explanation.

Hey photo and design types, there's a Canadian class action against Adobe re: early cancellation fees for annual billed monthly subscriptions. Including those who paid for a full year either bc they refused to pay the early fee or faced "prohibitive obstacles" canceling. clg.org/Class-Action...

Vote TUSC.

If you're anything like me, you have Marc Blitzstein's "Penny Candy" memorized—except the precise candies mentioned, in two groups of four, sometimes elude you. Here they are: 1. spearmint bell; nonpareil; scotch delight; taffy bite 2. tootsie rolls; licorice mops; jelly beans; chocolate drops

You do the math! (you do the monster math)