Once & for all, let's specify what "poptimism" was & wasn't, and why many people can't stop blaming it for every cultural change of the past 20 years. Most recently the esteemed Kelefa Sanneh, who's often (wrongly) said to have started it! Today in @slate.com slate.com/culture/2025...

If you see this quote post a concert picture you took

A new study, based on a survey of 1,150 workers suggests that the injection of AI tools into the workplace has not resulted in a magic productivity boom and instead increased the amount of time that workers say they spend fixing low-quality AI-generated “work.” 🔗 www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...

“It’s just fucking super Google that destroys the environment.” Today on COYOTE @soleilho.com checks in with an Oakland venue owner who’s fed up with AI-generated show flyers, to talk about what we lose when we normalize the practice (It’s not just braincells!)

@robmanuelyeah.bsky.social wotcha, just in case you've not seen, there is a *walkthrough* of the stupid Minecraft level on I Am Not A Robot available on Destructoid!!! No other way I was getting past it...

For some reason my Google maps is now showing national borders more obviously than I remember...

We’ve got less than a month to hit our goal - and we’re just under half way there. Six quid gets you the digital edition. Twelve of your Earth pounds will get you the beautiful shiny print version. Fifteen and you can have both. Brilliant writing on the past, present and future of popular culture.

bear: rawr rawr rawr rawr rawr rawr rawr rawr rawr rawr rawr rawr me: this bear's repeating

Think Remco can get off and walk the last bit #TheCycling

To quote Marisa, the wife of #JDTwitch, in her post: "the most meaningful way to honour Keith is to keep playing his music, sharing your memories, and supporting the causes he cared about." In this thread, please find a series of links that will allow you to do just that. Please share widely:

A fabulous day with the excellent team @amitybrewco.bsky.social Making one beautiful beer. Read on. Please share. And grab one of the few remaining tickets while you still can. #ISBFX #Brewday2 #Tickets #DontMissOut

Optimo (Espacio)’s JD Twitch has died. RIP to an all-time great of UK dance music 🖤

If wrestling is fake, explain this!

Sporting result of the year? Grimsby beating Man U has nothing on that! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

Am I *literally* the target audience for Spinal Tap II? Yes, yes I am. Did I also Laff Like A Drane? Yes, yes also this and I'm *sure* I missed a bunch of background gags as well...

How about Novocaine for the sole?

My Chemical Divorce (Made this joke already, but lost in a thread)

Just saw Mario turned 40 this week and so, once again, I present to you: the first level of Super Mario but all the sound effects are farts.

There is a cure for buffetphobia, but first you’ve got to want to help yourself.

Looking for a massive fence to climb up and sit on

Over The Hills & Far Away Where Monsters Come Out To Play… #ISBFX Brewday 1: @torrside.bsky.social Read all about our first brewday for the festival this year over on our blog: www.salfordbeerfest.com/news/isbfx-brewday-1-or-over-the-hills-far-away-where-monsters-come-out-to-play

Unbelievable!

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Foone has been doing some things, some of them are genius, some of them are Very Cursed. Well done Foone!

Anyone want to see the film Quadrophenia but condensed into less than a minute and made thirteen years earlier? The music is absolutely banging as well. Be a Picnicnik! youtu.be/4vLsNMwXrQc?...

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So we're almost at the half-way mark for the campaign for Issue Four... and we're about half-way funded. Which means, at current progress, we might make it, but it'll be tight. Help secure the future of independent pop culture journalism - and your own copy of Issue Four - by buying your copy now.

iffff anyone is looking for bar cover or whatever then I am very [LinkedIn voice] ✨open to work✨ this week and indeed next week. I am very good at pints and things like that, can talk about beer, work my absolute arse off etc

The tendency of people with low political appeal to overestimate the importance of their political appeal is known as the Danny-Kruger effect.

the subtitles made me actually lol in the middle of a difficult day in the office

It’s 2025 and the scariest college football player I’ve ever seen is making adorable TikToks with his wife

If you're a UK history teacher [or know UK history teachers] teaching Key Stage 4 migration and empires, crime and punishment and Whitechapel modules, please sign your students up to Archives Live on 13 October! Alec's story needs to be seen and heard: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/se...

Look, LOOK, I'm *just saying* that this is better than two likes (and one of those was from a bot...)

Brian Eno delighted with the way the men's 100m champion planned his race...

Do you think unbending Clippy until he was a long piece of metal would be painful for him. Or do you think it would cause him to feel a great sense of relief

The Nazi dicks saying there were three million in London today; their inability to accurately visualise numbers starts to explain why they shit their pants over a few people turning up in small boats

Last five!!! #TramWM It's Poznan's to lose, here...

I'd have thought WWE fans would be happy that Wrestlemania will be in a desert, this way it'll be easier for them to bury their heads in the sand

why have a mascot race when you could have a mascot royal rumble? hawky won't be cheating at this one... daisycutterzine.wordpress.com/2025/09/13/m...

BOURDAIN: so ive had joints of mutton everywhere. exeter, wroexeter, berwick. Ive never seen a joint of mutton prepared like this MEDIEVAL SPIT-BOY: we roaste thee meat under a pafte which keeps the juices, and renders the meat moft tendere BOURDAIN: *chuckling* wow

Q. Who aligns the aligners? A. alignmentalignment.ai Today I’m humbled to announce an epoch-defining event: the launch of the 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.

Start casting the film immediately:

Creditable performance by Edinburgh, there but not troubling the top of the leader board... #TramWM

Poznan BOSSING the first round right now! www.youtube.com/live/smp0voL...

anyone need their horse rotated?