my favourite Ashes series' are the ones that are over before they even start

has anything been written yet about the panic millennials (and older gens) might be feeling, having spent 15 yrs becoming totally absorbed by, and fully addicted to, social media & the internet, only to now realise that, because of widespread AI and misinformation, we might have to eject fast?

this has ended up at #1 on my Spotify Wrapped ffs

finally been able to carry on with my blog series The 10 Best UK Number Ones of the 2000s. PART THREE: HEAVEN - DJ SAMMY & DO colourfulsevens.medium.com/the-10-best-...

finally been able to carry on with my blog series The 10 Best UK Number Ones of the 2000s. PART THREE: HEAVEN - DJ SAMMY & DO colourfulsevens.medium.com/the-10-best-...

they sure do talk a lot in Stranger Things about what they're going to do. maybe the episodes would be shorter if they just did the things they're gonna do.

think this is where we end up

every day we get closer

Arsenal look treble good imo.

how good is this. fucking belting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m3C...

the new De La Soul record! that's the stuff!

the old adage says your parents will get more conservative as they get older, but the extent to which my mum has become a fully radicalised leftist has shocked even me, lol. went on her first proper march today at the age of 61.

it's been this way for a while so i'm late to this observation, but you go on Twitter now and it really is wall-to-wall blue-tick bot accounts going "white Europeans are going extinct 😂😂😂" and "people shower every day??? and eat breakfast ???? who are these people? 😱🫣" and nothing else.

just on this: i wrote a pretty long essay about Danny L Harle's Harlecore in 2021, for Gigwise. then Gigwise's old domain died for some reason, so the article went with it. thankfully the Wayback Machine saved it because it's one of my favourites. #TheTwen2ie5 web.archive.org/web/20210719...

class album that not enough bands have tried to replicate, even though the formula is fuckin dynamite. just write a load of soft 60s classic pop/Brill Building ballads and suffocate them all in screeching guitar feedback. surely it's not only The Raveonettes who've tried this since?

got invited onto a YouTube live stream to discuss and defend the end of Game of Thrones. it's what i was born to do, baby (apparently!) www.youtube.com/live/WkgOfQn...

got invited onto a YouTube live stream to discuss and defend the end of Game of Thrones. it's what i was born to do, baby (apparently!) www.youtube.com/live/WkgOfQn...

so we have this little Highland cow plush toy that stays on the armchair. Derek sleeps on the armchair a lot so we often find him leaning on the Highland cow, or resting his chin. today Derek started cleaning and grooming the cow like it was a living thing, his little nap buddy 😭🥺

it's finally clicked what that Golden Huntrx thing reminds me of www.youtube.com/watch?v=smHe...

Vardy's goal Vs Juventus, he's at it again - 38 y/o and still one of the best in the world at 1-on-1 and 1-on-2 situations.

Derek has fallen asleep next to a takeaway menu. he keeps waking up to read it before dozing off again 😭❤️

at a talk with Trevor Horn tonight. Sale Waterside Arts Centre. a nice venue with a nice café. i don't even like coffee but the smell of it makes me want to read.

doing my HMs separate from my #TheTwen2ie5 thread. i'm not arsed about my pick "winning", i'm just here to share songs. so, fuck it. HM1: i make music. i make upbeat power pop in a Weezer/Ash/Exploding Hearts-adjacent style. here's Hybrid Girl - Colourful Sevens. www.youtube.com/watch?v=F28j...

NEW POPULAR ENTRY! 2Pac gets a (very) posthumous Number 1 thanks to Elton and Eminem, but the edits reveal some interesting things about The Kind Of Rap Brits Like popular-number1s.com/2025/10/23/2...

IF ANYONE'S INTERESTED - if you follow Tom and want EVEN MORE chat about UK number ones of the 2000s - read Tom's brilliant Popular column for Ghetto Gospel first and then migrate over to our chat about it on Hits 21! if you like! spotify.link/aMSgE7czKXb skip to about 9:30 for our coverage!

just went and saw (and met) Stewart Lee. when we took a picture together he did his best "younger comedian called Russell" impression.

playing FIFA 16 earlier this evening. i scored a goal that immediately made me think "surely that was offside", so i went back and watched the replay, and, yeah, absolutely no idea what's gone on here or how the CPU/game has missed it.

don't much care for hans zimmer or his worlds largest modular rig schtick but i am fully on board with the seventeen string zz top bass

@lobstereo.bsky.social i loved your Mutual Mondays ya know. if you ever wanna bring em back, don't hesitate. but at the same time, if you can't be arsed anymore cos it's effort, i get it, lol.

unsure if any of the #TheTwen2ie5 crowd will be interested but i'm ranking every Weezer song their main discography from worst to best.

ranking every Weezer song (that's on a standard issue of one of their albums, or from the SZNZ EPs) from worst to best. let's call it the #weezer195.

snoozy boi

TECHNOLOGICAL SINGULARITY UPDATE: just apologised to the roomba after accidentally getting in its way

a very content 4-year-old boy

Derek is 4 (FOUR) years old today!

just clocked that these photos, shot 6 years apart, were taken in the same room and almost on the exact same spot.

John Cleese turning out to be very anti-Reform was not on my bingo card for 2026 but it's welcome all the same

mega www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM_4...

they make you eat lots of this before someone drops a glass in a crowded pub

London (and surrounding areas) absolutely insane for this. you'll be walking down a street on which 50 houses all look alike and then ONE house (two at most) will be like "... No" and look like this

to the fans that held us down till everybody came around... welcome... it's SPRAX HEART EP2 BABYYYY spraxheart.bandcamp.com/album/stark-...

this new Taylor album, that new Sabrina Carpenter album, the stuff Chappell Roan is doing, this new Olivia Dean single - who knew the 2k25 pop girlies would be bringing back yacht rock.

reckon Tom Skinner already regrets going on Strictly and think it'll actually damage his rep. since he's signed up he's had scandals from his personal life dragged across the press and he's so obviously shit at dancing that it looks like he hasn't even tried. will go out first, and for what.

went to Telford yesterday for a work conference. a grotty little town - freaky as hell and nothing works. still, our company won an award and i went solo bowling to kill some time.

catching up with #TheTwen2ie5 after missing the fist couple of days. 50. CRYING IN THE KITCHEN - Dave Blunts not even gonna try and pretend that i wasn't addicted to Dave Blunts' (frankly) bizarre "confessional" in a So Bad It's Good sense. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-axG...