#NowPlaying I saw @johngstyles.bsky.social had this on. Just right for post-Christmas

How I like my Geese.. (It's all gone now btw..)

I've bought one or two 7's this year & I've picked out my favourite finds for this end of year #WeekendSingles Bought in shops from New Zealand to New York, from 20p to er.. a bit more Details in Alt text

My top 5 songs from 2025 Jeffrey Lewis - Inger Alan Sparhawk - Heaven Edwyn Collins - Knowledge These New Puritans - Wild Fields Imperial Valley - American Memory I #chopsfives

I published 52 posts on Dada Drummer Almanach this year, if I could get everyone to read one it would be this interview with Claude about AI music dadadrummer.substack.com/p/the-missin...

Excellent news. It is so much more sensible

This is infuriating. Thanks to Adam for a wonderfully comprehensive account of how the Roberts court is attacking the Civil War amendments to the constitution 1/

#5Albums25 Alan Sparhawk With Trampled By Turtles An intense record that gets a lot of its power from simplicity and brevity. Listen to Heaven, all 1 min 10 seconds - if it doesn't move you then I'll give you your money back youtu.be/acBo1YCKk9M?...

Two that didn't feature in many (or any?) end of year lists for my #5Albums25 Jeffrey Lewis with my song of the year - Inger. Leaves me in bits every time Sophia Djebel Rose, maybe a French Moroccan modern day Nico wvsorcerer.bandcamp.com/album/s-cher... Covers obscured to evade the censors 🙄

JONNY (Norman Blake & Euros Childs) will be in concerts at FRETS on Friday 20th Feb in the Strathaven Hotel. They’ll be performing songs from their back catalogue (TFC/Gorky’s/Jonny), it’ll be a great night, the perfect Xmas present!Here’s the ticket link: wegottickets.com/event/685253

On my way to London for a family do in Greenwich - Christmas has started 🎄🎄🎄🎄 Here's 8 new arrivals for #WeekendSingles

There has been a relentless, cacophonous campaign to stigmatise pro-Palestinian activists. But the inconvenient truth is that these are just ordinary people of good conscience who see the horrors of Gaza and simply cannot bear to stand by and do nothing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#AdventSingles Day 20 On entering the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother; and they knelt down and paid him homage. Then, opening their treasure chests, they offered him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh

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#5Albums25 Imperial Valley - American Memory Richard Skelton usually gets in my list. This year it's CF Moore's turn (Richard's alter ego). Post rock drones with a bit of a gybe vibe. The first track is particularly good More info in the pics / Alt text foldedtime.bandcamp.com/album/americ...

#5Albums25 These New Puritans - Crooked Wing Most of my favourites this year have been about death and loss. This one took a few plays to really land, and then became a regular late evening listen. My #1 by a mile thesenewpuritans.bandcamp.com/album/crooke...

Shirokuro, a Japanese restaurant in NYC's East Village, where the interior mimics a hand-drawn black-and-white sketchbook.

#AdventSingles Day 19 When they saw that the star had stopped, one asked "is this really it, a stable? and the second wise man replied "Is your star sign ever wrong?"

Sincerely one of the funniest things the WSJ has ever written or done. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

#NowPlaying Geese Thought I'd better find out what all the fuss was about for this #5Albums25 hot tip Seems like people either love it or... Got to say I'm struggling with the vocals, but I've made it to the end. Just. Maybe another one for Radiohead fans

#AdventSingles Day 18 When they had heard the king, they set out; and there, ahead of them, went the star that they had seen at its rising, until it stopped over the place where the child was

#AdventSingles Day 17 Then Herod secretly called for the wise men and learned from them the exact time when the star had appeared. Then he sent them to Bethlehem, saying, "Go and search diligently for the child; and when you have found him, bring me word so that I may also go and pay him homage."

From a professional comms perspective, I'd say a good start for Labour combatting far right rhetoric would be to stop repeating it, saying they "understand it" or including its stock tropes in official documents pretty much any time they talk about migration. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

#AdventSingles Day 16 "For we observed his star at its rising, and have come to pay him homage."

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#NowPlaying Rosalia - Lux I thought it was time I had a look at the lyrics... 🧐

#AdventSingles Day 15 In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, asking, "Where is the child who has been born king of the Jews?

Fucking hell. Can't think of anything more illustrative of the twin evils we're currently fighting (white nationalism and AI-powered disinformation) than this.

#NowPlaying If Lankum were from North Carolina... This is a fine sound for a Sunday afternoon weirs-nc.bandcamp.com/album/diamon...

A thread for #WeekendSingles I found this on eBay a couple of weeks ago, & when I got home from my London trip with 5 mins left on the auction I couldn't resist bidding for a small piece of history. And 'that' sticker - mine got stuck on something a long time ago..1/

#AdventSingles Day 14 When the angels had left them and gone into heaven the shepherds said to one another, "Let us go now to Bethlehem and see this thing that has taken place, which the Lord has made known to us." So they went with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the child lying in the manger

#AdventSingles Day 13 "This will be a sign for you: you will find a child wrapped in bands of cloth and lying in a manger."

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

A thread for #WeekendSingles I found this on eBay a couple of weeks ago, & when I got home from my London trip with 5 mins left on the auction I couldn't resist bidding for a small piece of history. And 'that' sticker - mine got stuck on something a long time ago..1/

If we were smart we'd emigrate #FallFriday #NowPlaying

This really shouldn’t be a difficult thing for politicians to condemn. Instead we get the same tired, lazy and dangerous BS about ‘activist lawyers’, which puts people’s safety at risk and now stops charities from even operating.

#AdventSingles Day 12 "Then an angel of the Lord stood before them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid; for see - I am bringing you good news of great joy: to you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, who is the Messiah, the Lord (and that's no lie).

Never forget

We don't have, and have never had, "mass migration", never mind the irony of referencing Collier with ‘policy-based evidence’, when Labour is actively going against all actual evidence, including the Home Office's, to push its anti-asylum policies, or trying to make out unsafe countries are safe. 2/

#AdventSingles Day 11 In that region there were shepherds living in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night....

#AdventSingles Day 10 While they were there, the time came for her to deliver her child. And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a manger.

My top 5 gigs of 2025 Edwyn Collins - Newcastle Cabaret Voltaire - Sheffield Gillian Welch - Sydney Alan Sparhawk - Nottingham These New Puritans - Manchester

If you've got a spare 10 minutes... Well it made me laugh anyway.. woe-industries.itch.io/you-have-bil...

An essential piece from Cory Doctorow. A great companion piece to Ed Zitron's articles. Less a business / finance piece & more on why the tech is a bad deal for everyone apart from the AI owners & corporate bosses (they think) pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...

#AdventSingles Day 9 "Oh there's no room at the inn" "Ok how about Plan B, it's not ideal, but this stable is better than nothing"

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#AdventSingles Day 8 Mary: "So you mean we've got to go all the way from Nazareth to Bethlehem just to be counted.. How on earth are we going to get there?" Joseph: "Well there's always my white bicycle" Mary: "Let's hire a donkey"

Unsurprising mask-off racism from Nick Timothy here. Upset at the abolition of the two-child limit - because some of (British) kids who will benefit have (British) parents who are the wrong colour (were born in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Somalia, etc). archive.ph/rycVD

Movie you've watched more than six times. Hard mode: no Star Wars, Star Trek, LOTR or Marvel. Surely everyone has seen this more than six times?..