Had a tough week mentally - but emerging out of it. Mental health & IBS symptoms exacerbated because of it; stress about employment, money (all the usual). Not to mention The State of The World. Going to unsubscribe from some Substackers, switch off news, & keep taking herbal anti depressant for now

Siobhain McDonagh MP just emailed constituents celebrating the freezing of Merton council tax, while in the same sentence, literally saying it is going up. The mental gymnastics and doublespeak needed to keep up with Labour is getting harder. Don't blame me, I voted Green, etc.

Jeffrey Epstein of Epstein Island... Peter Mandelson of the Epstein Files... Wes Streeting of the Puberty Blocker ban... Tim Allen of "Sex Matters"... What lovely people!

I mean....

Happened upon this movie on TV. Damn that was a creepy scene. Emily [2022].

The Walkman models that defined each era. Another lovely exploration of one of our favourite formats, from @obsoletesony.com 👇🏽📼 #CassetteCulture #Cassettes #Cassunday open.substack.com/pub/obsolete...

How it started, how it's going, where we're heading.

It's a cheeky #cassunday post from me as I've just launched issue 2 or my free cassette fanzine - and wouldn't it be wrong of me not to share that news with you lovely lot 😁 PDF and physical copies available right... NOW... buymeacoffee.com/saveferric

Issue 2 of @mflah.bsky.social's great Save Ferric ##CassetteCulture zine is out! Mine arrived this week 📼 #Cassunday

#Cassunday Nobody Here vaporwave compilation [2020] // @mypetflamingo.bsky.social

Stubbed my toe, but I screamed disproportionately - because the world is on fire, and I just had to let it all out in that moment.

I just can't draw any conclusions from this review. Its ambiguity is confusing. youtu.be/DTyUni8dbkE?...

When in an existential crisis, watch Twin Peaks. www.imdb.com/title/tt4706...

The first 10 minutes of IT: Welcome to Derry were wild.

Ffs ...

Nobody Here: The Story of Vaporwave [Teaser Trailer] So proud to be sharing this with you all. It’s been a journey. Much love to everyone who’s helped along the way and supported us. This internet thing just got real… 4-20… Pre-Orders open here: mypetflamingo.bandcamp.com/album/nobody...

Picked up my #NobodyHere movie C-USB, and the second edition crowdfunder comp playing... Let's gooooo! #vaporwave

Internal White House meetings going on, like, "Hopefully the racism will distract from the pedophilia which will distract from the killings which will distract from the pedophilia again which will distract from the economy which will distract from the pedophilia a third time"

And we are LIVE. GO, GO, GO! mypetflamingo.com

As ever - the truth and bold politics from @zackpolanski.bsky.social

These fucking ghouls. We need to extract ourselves from everything Palantir.

IMDB ratings prove it to be "the lowest rated movie of all time". Good. We aren't buying the vacuous propaganda you're selling, while you murder us. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

I like my Reform candidates to wear their fascism loud and proud, so we can identify them more readily as grifting racists.

Had an afternoon of horror heaven at @lostsoulspizza.bsky.social. Thanks for making us so welcome! Wish you were here, @davidweiner.bsky.social 🦇🔪💀 #LostBoys

Norway actually facilitates the prosecution of their Royal family members accused of rape. Can you imagine in the UK...? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Coming home to roost, etc..

Finally started to read Paul Murray's The Bee Sting. I'm right at the start, but what wonderful characterisation and compelling set up #BookSky

Arresting journalists. We’re at that stage.

Just attended a school-facilitated evening webinar from Voicebox. Absolutely brilliant & practical stuff. Made me think of Trump, Stephen Miller, and Yaxley-Lennon...essentially they were never given psychological safety as boys to express their fears. Now their insecurities are writ large globally.

Palantir’s stated mission is to defend America. Peter Thiel is a radical libertarian who does not believe ‘freedom & democracy are compatible’. Yet, the UK is overwhelmingly dependent on Palantir’s services. As a national security threat, this is off the charts. @thenerve.news 2/

The year so far, and likely the next 11 months to come....

Great. Next we need to ban Musk's X - as it contains porn, videos of ultra-violence, and straight-up dark web extremism.

Took a trip to one of my favourite places this afternoon, the Barbican. Enjoyed this - extended - Blondie photo exhibition, and picked up a print for the ridiculous bargain of £1 (frame my own). #BlondieInCamera1978. I was born in '78, so this is a really cool piece of memorabilia, & Debbie Harry ❤️

Music and its artists are shaped by situation, circumstance, sometimes rebellion, or a repurposing of society's threads, forms and dominant culture. Vaporwave is the subculture of the 2010s onwards. It's both vacuous and deeply meaningful; statement and saccharine. It is consumption and creation.

Holy shit.

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Our Memphis sweatshirts are starting to land all over the world! Grab yours at mypetflamingo.com on the merch page

@longdistancedan.bsky.social you might like this!

I've seldom read a more on the nose sentence.

Can't find any info reported in Wimbledon news sites (or further), but trying to find out if police *do* have the masked would-be child abductor in custody? It happened two weeks ago, local schools have given broken information to our kids - but some all terrified. What's the end of the story?

ICE’s budget has grown from c$10bn p/a to $85bn. If it were a military force, it would be the 6th best-funded in the world. It is pursuing a “wartime recruitment” drive, hiring over 12k agents, with outreach aimed at military enthusiasts and gun-rights advocates. Source: @theobserveruk.bsky.social

ICE is leaving Vietnam-style death cards in the wake of their kidnappings because they are the saddest, most embarrassing military wannabes to ever live coloradosun.com/2026/01/23/a...

Another happy @mypetflamingo.bsky.social customer. @robdysonpr.uk sporting the new limited edition Memphis design MPF sweatshirt 👌🏼. Design by Andrew Walker (Stratford Court). Previously only available at the Yung Bae tour.

@news.sky.com is FAR superior to BBC News reporting on ICE, Pretti, and Trump's authoritarianism. Even with its Comcast owner. The tide is turning. We have lost BBC News, and long ago.

A tribute to the Black Panthers taking up pre-emptive arms should ICE show up in Philly. #Cassunday Public Enemy / Apocalypse 91 [1991]

To @aoc.bsky.social’s point, here’s what JD Vance said about Kyle Rittenhouse: