Look, I don't know why Death's selection list has been fucked since Prince, but we're going to need an elite heist team of religious scholars, metaphysicists, occultists and a cat burglar and we're going to go fix this shit.

If I'd known this was coming I would have been meaner

Strap strap strap strap

Fuck Otis.

Christ the revised edition of Voidheart Symphony is gorgeous!

Oh I wonder who would wrote that about Emma Nolde?

A kind of heartbreaking lowest ranking five (though of course they still made the final fifty). All these are really sharp and good in their varied ways. Though I admit I only gave points to one of them. I guess this tells us it's a very high quality field. (Except for the ones I'm grumpy about)

Ok #PeoplesPop25 final fifty voting is now CLOSED! 107 ballots, which is 6 fewer than last year but 24 more than our most recent poll! I'm going to add the last 17 and then start preparing THE COUNTDOWN

It's my duty to report that around 63% of bangers are not in English.

Watch out everybody.

This makes entire sense, but I'm relieved/disappointed the 6music dads (gender neutral) and South African three-step fans don't make an appearance don't make an appearance.

I feel like we took the piss a lot. But the rewind is a fucking great part of dnb and garage culture. Yes that was great, yes let's start again to really appreciate the intro production. Top notch stuff. Should happen more.

It's the FINAL DAY for voting in this - I'll be closing it tomorrow morning!

Oh and it goes off

the appearance of kneecap on a dungeons and dragons inspired album remains one of the funniest things that's ever happened and i don't understand why we aren't talking about it all the time

Imagining wanting less of this in America lol. Skill issue

"prohibition in the united states" has this time lapse map that switches from folksy banjo music to ominous industrial sci-fi for the 15 seconds when alcohol was illegal nationwide

5pm: art

It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

Honestly quite glad the pop polls gave me the heads up I was very into bad bunny.

Wait, THIS is young Anton Chekhov? This? Good lord. Let that gun go off, daddy

I have told a few MPs this. I genuinely feel a lot of adults hate the existence and needs of young people. Then they act surprised/bewildered that these kids are anxious/depressed.

I don't think the political backing for this necessarily wants trans kids dead, I think they simply do not care and insist so vehemently on not caring (because they need to remain anti trans to occupy the political space they have decided on) that they're willing to cover their eyes and carry on.

It's really haunting to me that one of the key things that the Cass Review, the Appleby Report, the Sullivan Report etc have been designed specifically to do is to hide the harm that has been arranged to happen to trans people.

11. everyone responds differently to everything 12. everyone’s 24 hours in a day are not the same 13. grief is never done 14. “i saw this and thought of you” is the most sincere and honest exchange 15. there’s no such thing as a waste of time

photo from a friend at a lego convention right now, amazing 🌭

Our society is steeped in conversion pressures for children who quietly, silently, question their gender. These pressure work to ensure that some children will never overcome their own shame & self-doubt enough to safely explore who they are.

love this on how The Very Hungry Caterpillar works, and where it comes from lookingatpicturebooks.substack.com/p/the-very-h...

had three glasses of wine at dinner last night and told my Labour friend "THE MILITRAIN IS COMING BACK INTO TOWN, CHOO CHOO" so I guess that's where I'm at, personally

God Björk's there's more to life than this is just a perfect little sapphic dream, huh? The intentionally muddy production. The closed toilet door on the second verse. Let's nick a boat and get the first bread of the morning. Absolute scenes.

I worked at my local library when I first moved up here and got into a fight with them about whether we should have so much terf literature on display, particularly when they were the only academic books on transness. It did not go well.

Vote Nolde!

This is my world champion BTW, if you even care #wrestlesky 🤼

#PeoplesPop25 THE FINAL FIFTY It's time to VOTE for your favourite finalists in the WORLD CUP OF 2025 Take your time, choose 12 tracks and rank them if you can, then fill in the results on this ballot - you have until first thing Tuesday! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I want you to know that during the brainstorming session for these I decided it might be a laugh to write terrible erotic fiction for Heart Junk Mage Zeniths after writing it and posting it everyone went quiet because it turns out I just had earnestly attempted to write florid angler fish porn

Not quite sure why a knight if the seven kingdom's next episode was up early, but ooh that's a stirring treat. I'm really quite liking it.

'Dried pasta is where lies live'

I used to follow the people's pop polls because they helped me fall in love with artists I'd never heard of before. But now I mostly find myself in deep hatred of artists who I've heard one track of and sworn as a mortal enemy because the RNG put them in a group with something I liked more.

(This is one of the nichest and bleakest gags I've ever done but I'm weirdly proud of it)

Call from local mental health service where I start off saying in fine but as I explain my situation I get worse and I explain this is how it goes when I reach out for support and people tell me to talk to other services that won't help me so I get told to talk to other services that won't help me.

"From each according to their ability" is such a revolutionary, society upending, liberating idea if you take it really really seriously alongside disability politics.

If you are baffled by why the jury refused to convict the Palestine Action defendants, it's because – unlike them – you didn't hear the actual evidence. You heard what the media wanted you to know. Here, I explain what the jury learnt from the trial: jonathancook.substack.com/p/barristers...

Incidentally this was what tipped me off about Jacob Tierney, and I had to stop reading when I realised it was about to spoil one of the toppest tier moments of telly. Now it remains elucidating. Delightful.

While I'm very bitter about some things that missed the cut incredibly narrowly, compared to some things that are cleanly in here, it's a cracking fifty tracks and covers a really interesting spread. It was remarkably easy to get my twelve in order in the end though.

New tarot offering, thinking about anxiety and the strength to hold it www.patreon.com/posts/149919...

@yolowoho.bsky.social Alice Alice I'm watching hockey things and loving it you'd be so proud of me (I can see you liking posts I know you already know but I want you to know I'm thinking of you about it 😂😂)

I my god that Wolf Parade needle drop though. I think I'm going to explode a hundred times. That's such good telly.