The bar is showing a sport called Power Slap

Begging someone to say to Peter Thiel 'Sounds like you you cunt' when he starts going off on one about the antichrist.

Apparantly there's a sloth in the park next to our hotel and I'm camping out there until I have an encounter with the sedentary motherfucker 🦥

Was too slow to get decent photos, but a woman in an alien mask and another with a lampshade on her head just marched past the bar.

Medellin causing me to revise my 'Americans with passports who leave the country to see the world aren't wrong 'uns' hypothesis.

Me in the taxi back to Bristol Airport from Worthy Farm on the Monday afternoon

If only the Queen were still alive to be seeing this.

Night falls over Medellin

BAILE INoLVIDABLE? BAILE unavoidable more like.

Mick Jagger seems to have visited every oblea seller in Bogota.

Bogota biting some of Edinburgh's style

The #1 San Pellegrino Best Restaurant in Latin America just blasted Hold Tight by Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich at top volume to all its patrons.

Chondur root cocktail, potent with the shamanic herbs used in Yagé rituals.

Bogota. Chocolate Santafereño, where the hot chocolate comes with lumps of cheese.

In the traps in the gents at Charles de Gaulle. Comically explosive sound from the stall next door, followed by a low voice muttering "Ah oui. Ca c'est bon"

Off to Colombia 🇨🇴 #NowPlaying #cumbia

First gig of the year - Suede at the Usher Hall. First time seeing them in 30 years - think they've aged better than I have.

Furious clarity from Jude Wanga www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

Watching Traitors Ireland

Yeah, the gloating about Brexit makes it super clear that this transnational alliance of disaster capitalists/accelerationists is responsible for most of the resurgent fascisms across the globe. We knew. Rees-Mogg's dad literally wrote the book on it. Thiel wrote the foreword to a later edition.

Random #NowPlaying trawl of the archives

Styles upon styles upon styles #NowPlaying

👑

Lauren Laverne playing Jokerman in her Sly Dunbar tribute 😀 #ripslydunbar

Haven't listened to the White Album end to end in a long (long, long) time. Hardly an original observation, but cumulatively the effect is staggering #NowPlaying

Google Photos is trying to tell me something.

🐸 👱‍♀️ 🎂

Took in a 'dog friendly' screening of Hamnet yesterday. The film starts with Jessie Buckley whistling at a hawk, but the entire canine element in the cinema took it as a signal to go for walkies and it all kicked off.

I'll bet he did.

Losing it at this Facebook feed of Keith Richards-related AI slop www.facebook.com/share/1AN8vK...

Twenty years since I was very briefly a millionaire

Definitely some strong choices, but not *quite* as insane as I was hoping for.

Marty Supreme? More like Marty Fair to Middling

Post a pic of the venue where you saw your first concert and the band or artist.

[sombrely, with tears in eyes] "truly the people of Iran embody the great spirit of Flumpo The Fart Wizard" - author of Flumpo The Fart Wizard

WTAF is Louis Mosley of Palantir doing on Laura Kuenssberg? Why is an executive of this predatory big data firm, owned & run by far-right fanatics & central to the genocidal machinery of the Israeli state, given privileged airtime on the BBC's flagship politics show? #bbclaurak

Though to be fair we were

Sainsbury’s Wrapped is finally in and I'm disappointed by my Mint Tea rankings. Need to pump those numbers in 2026.

When you definitely aren't practicing settler-colonialism.

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

tfw when you don't know whether to laugh or cry

"Audacious"? Fuck me ..

There's a global solar energy revolution happening led by China and it should have been one of the biggest stories of 2025. While the US is committing to a suicide pact with fossil fuels, the rest of the world is leapfrogging into cheap nearly limitless energy. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/c...

It seems it is once again time for everyone to familiarize themselves with this anti-imperialist classic.

Canada has the opportunity to do the funniest thing right now

Well done to the US for heroically deterring Russia and China from considering regime change abroad by doing it themselves and suffering absolutely no consequences whatsoever up to and including having their allies fall short of actually criticizing them for it.

Paging The Hague

Fucking yikes