"Atari Teenage Riot: Live At Brixton Academy 1999"

One of these days I'll take self-care a bit more seriously, so that I don't feel the need, after hours of denial, to defiantly state I'm putting on a thin jumper so I'm not as cold anymore in the same voice Marge Simpson used for "AND A BOTTLE OF TEQUILA!!!"

Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani https://theonion.com/fact-checking-claims-about-zohran-mamdani/

please look at the cow from Hard Drivin’

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@alfsplaining.bsky.social - Shumway Sighting in Simpsons Season 37, Episode 1. (Static only, pictured on comic convention flyer)

ROY BATTY: …I rode on the back decks of a blinker and watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments... they'll be gone. CHATGPT: That’s a powerful story 🎯 Thank you for sharing with me! It really spoke to your passion for space! 🚀

A fantastic look at every corner of forty years of British children's TV. And thanks to the new paperback release, it fits right in your pocket! (not a guarantee; pocket size may vary)

always loved Matthew MooConaughey in Grazed and Confused

There's a new Sugar single... And they're touring next year... Do these legacy bands know how fuckin' busy I am? This is why I can't keep up with new music, I've got half of the Late Show "No Nirvana" special reforming every six months youtu.be/ITL_0Y1AHGk?...

SPOILER: I did not. The Trap Door is excellent stuff though, as is this fine podcast!

Share a photo of TV 'Taub' (House) that today's kids have probably never seen.

“Sauve qui peut”. This is a French phrase that translates literally to something like "save yourself who's able/can" and roughly equates to “run for your life!” or “every man for himself!”, indicating a chaotic or dangerous situation/stampede. Postcard from my collection, no date/info.

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine. My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask: Why, even now, is no-one asking questions? t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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Pound for pound, best album ever

...and there's much more about Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends - and how surprisingly well it stands up now - here: timworthington.org/2023/12/19/i...

Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends - animated Goblin-unbalancing escapades of college-bound Peter Parker conveniently sharing a dorm with stray X-Man Bobby 'Iceman' Drake and last minute Human Torch analogue Angelica 'Firestar' Jones. Watch out, Video-Man! timworthington.org/2023/12/19/i...

"Second comes right after first!"

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"Experiment IV" is great, as I was just reminded. That's it, that's the... Skeet?

I never join a teams meeting before 4 people are in it out of sheer hatred of small talk.

Yeeeeeeah, boyeeeee

I love Black Mirror, but there's a big part of me that just wants Charlie Brooker to go back to BBC Four and make some silly little shows about obscure TV.

“No one needed all these fidget toys back in our day!” Explain these then:

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Probably worth amplifying this one... I certainly have questions for the member from Clacton... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just learned from @whenisbirths.bsky.social 's last book (next one follows very soon" who the first artist to debut on the UK charts at number one was... I am SHOOK. Not for the quality of the artist (great track, great performance) but because I thought it would have happened sooner than that!

I don't think it is callous of me to observe that it is weird to see the PM of the UK, the leader of the Opposition of the UK, and the ex UK PM all putting out solemn and devastated tweets about the death of a podcaster who is only a big name if you're constantly on Twitter

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If you work in the press, the music press, broadcasting, podcasting, bookshops, and you'd like to help launch the book in the coming weeks, either through promotion or review, do email me at [email protected]. Thank you! #IntoTheGroove

Tip to the BBC, Mail, Telegraph, and other outlets - imagine this was Angela Rayner

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Clactose Intolerant - get that trending

Happy Your New Hero Is In Court For Harassing A Minor Day to the entire British press who spent all of yesterday with the contextual understanding and object permanence of toddlers

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A chat with @herring1967.bsky.social about The Golden Age Of Children's TV, and the unwitting influence that Children's Television - good, bad and Why Don't You...? - has on us all. May contain more than one reference to 'Ro-land'... timworthington.org/2025/05/17/r...

Linoleum's debut album "Dissent". Released in 1997 and ignored amongst a deluge at the end of Britpop, it's dark, cynical and relentless with breathy, disengaged vocals, evoking the "end of the party" feeling at that stage. Top picks: "Dissent", "Ways To Escape", "Stay Awhile", "Dangerous Shoes".

BRITISH RAIL IS TRAVELLING (1969)

In 1492, Patricia Routledge sailed the ocean blue

Update: it's a fucking banger is what it is

I don't even know what this is but I need it