Forgot to post my albums last Friday! Actually really like the new James Blake album, for my sins...

BoC and new The Field. Maybe everything truly is going to be ok (it won't)

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cocteau twins in the kitchen whilst making dinner kinda week

Been a Stars of the Lid and a Bicep - Bicep kind of week. Bicep - Glue I'm afraid to say remains an absolute banger and should go down as history as such despite techno boy guru associations. Smerz You got time I got money has been stuck in my head all week n all Unsure about new Gorillaz album..

rejected from Big John's Bosh Bingo at The Garage, Glasgow for being too late because I was getting a Huerco S. tattoo on the outskirts of Edinburgh smh smh

Albums from the last week, been enjoying me some Serwed and some Ulla, and of course Anthony Naples never misses

feeling very googling "intentional communities scotland" this week

Albums from the past week. Think I might have overlooked that Huerco S. album (although the weird mumbly vocal track I'm sorry to say is rubbish). That Ulla album is real nice will be tucking into more of their discography for sure.

Gorton and Denton result, according to Labour

Green landslide no surrender, UBI and a 4 day bender!!

people in the arts of Glasgow and beyond please come to this!! actionnetwork.org/events/basic...

I've been using last fm since September 2011, almost half my life. I just hit 100,000 scrobbles. These are my most listened to albums of all time! Obviously doesn't take into account records, CDs, countless hours of radio, pre-last fm emo phase - but reckon it's a pretty good representation of me.

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Happy Friday 13th! To celebrate the success of the UK establishment's continued "clarity" on trans exclusion, I am delighted to share a major update to my blog post "What's wrong with the Cass Review?" The biggest change is an entirely new section on harms caused. ruthpearce.net/2024/04/16/w...

It really does feel good to see there is still some semblance of justice left. I know people which might not go to prison as a result of this. But can't help feel that those who brought about this should be held accountable for the harm they've caused www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Been a Jefre Cantu-Ledesma kinda week

This is absolutely horrific stuff. I shouldn't be surprised anymore but just makes all the responding to consultations and pushing my employer to resist the bullshit new guidance seem incredibly pointless when the government are just going to push ahead anyway.

I know there's ~a lot of other things happening~ but I wrote a blog for Basic Income Network Scotland last month which I guess could be viewed as "Basic Income-maxxing" existing basic income-like proposals or targeted basic income schemes to bring about a full BI sooner cbin.scot/2026/01/23/t...

time for the NTS radio chatroom to return to chatango I fear

some good discourse on kimchi-tiktok today cancelling some white dude who's claiming to have invented the hot pot shot cube. Nothing like a bit of good old fashioned cultural appropriation as a pallet cleanser to distract me from the global peadophile ring

You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.

Derek kens "Should we really be placing ourselves in a constant state of ‘nothing can ever happen’ out of political malice? Seems an unnecessary resignation to misery and blind pessimism." Thing that annoys me most when speaking about BI is this very attitude www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2580...

albums I've listened to in the last week haven't posted these in a while but trying to be more ~active~ on here (for some reason)

Rough day for Sex Matters

sorry to telegraph share on main but I couldn't resist a possible hate read of this thinking it would be an "artists could have UBI only if they stick to their silly art and no politics!" argument but hilariously they come out in favour of it with one condition - that there are no conditions.

New BINS newsletter with lots about Basic Income for Artists: upcoming events in Edinburgh and Glasgow, pilot scheme in Ireland, @aileanbeaton.bsky.social BBC piece where @angusrobertson.bsky.social says "looking into" Basic Income, and a big fat nerdy blog from me cbin.scot/2026/01/29/j...

Been waiting for this one for ages. Found the part about "the bouncer noise" communicating something very specific without clear words especially interesting. Would say the Scottish/UK version sounds something more akin to "can you make your way to door please" but sounds very similar

I quite often miss the glory days of pandemic twitter when I used to ramble about basic income and also posted dumb music memes but need to grow up and accept those days are over and start writing boring substacks which no one will read and ultimately won't progress my career or make me happy

I know I have some Basic Income Followers and all I ever post are sporadic album collages but I'm going to attempt to start writing/posting a bit more about Basic Income... I've started writing the monthly gossip section for Basic Income Network Scotland (News & Updates) cbin.scot/2025/11/13/n...

Somewhat chaotic week for tunes

music n' that from the last week

Gradually coming to accept that Stars of the Lid could be the goat - their music genuinely makes me feel emotions I'm not sure are possible to express through language. RIP Brian. Reckon that new Joanne Robertson is gonna be my go-to sad boi autumn album. Two tracks already out are fantastic.

Took me a while to put my finger on what it reminded me of but the bass line on the new tame impala tune sounds like it's taken straight from an early Pantha du Prince record

Feel like could do with a new The Field album round about now

Great little dessert island political organising literature @medicinered.bsky.social Funny how Corbyn era 1.0 was "JC, no surrender, 4 day week and a 3 day bender " and now it's "JC, no surrender, stop enabling a literal genocide". Not that the stakes weren't high before but...

"statutory guidance for governing bodies" - you don't say. Actual government department using the dodgy as fuck supreme court ruling to carte blanche undermine trans rights further with no evidential basis. Denying something exists in sex ed has always gone so well in the past eh?

Albums from the last week. Check out Duncan Gray's back-catalogue if you fancy some low bpm chuggy/mutant disco type stuff. Sound of the summer. The tracks 'Proper Bogan' and 'The Weak Nuclear Force' particular highlights for moi

albums from the last week that Kettel EP is real nice old FaltyDL and John Talabot absolute classics instrumental in forming my music taste

matt healys "no politics just vibes" spiel coked off his nut last night was one of the most embarrassing things I've ever witnessed in my life. Imagine being at the pyramid stage at Glastonbury and not hearing a single cheer

That Lauer album really is a modern classic for me. Been a while since listened to all the remixes which are also great. Still a bit obsessed with that king creosote album for my sins.

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As one-shot joke ultradork t-shirts go, it's pretty good

Music from the last week. Lots of stuff I find myself returning to a lot and some new finds. Reckon Shlomo - Bad Vibes could be cementing itself as up there with my all time faves.

Calling Out of Context

haven't posted the weekly albums in a while - been some absolutely cracking new music this year

top albums from the last week and also from a couple of weeks ago I forgot to post...

weekly music round up: Been listening to a ridiculous amount of musicforswimmingpools.co.uk/ - Pete Herbert an absolute fav of mine for the cosmic/boogie/balearic