My 14-year-old seems to be getting into "90s music" and asked me to make a playlist of "music that you listened to in the 90s" but I fear that my playlist-in-progress '24-Hour Party People' might raise a few questions that are already answered by the playlist.

Those Meta glasses are like strapping a Cybertruck to your face.

Forever putting the weird into Aufweirdersen Pet.

Just a regular margarita this evening since I need to resupply my bar. On the turntable is Peace and Love by Dadawah, which is a record that I don't know a lot about except that it's a fantastic Nyahbinghi LP that has Lloyd Charmers on it.

When people say they practice Scottish Witchcraft I assume that they are just doing regular neopaganism but with little traffic cones on the heads of all their deity statues.

One of my favourite things in Andor is how they put this speech about all the things that make life worth living and fighting for in the mouth of its most frivolous and hedonistic side character and it touches everyone at the table including Luthen. youtu.be/UDiNQlQb4x0?...

Delivery driver caught my accent yesterday and started saying his favourite TV show was Doctor Who - "until the wokes got ahold of it and ruined it" - and I was carrying things to the kitchen so didn't get a chance to reply "you sound more like a fucking Dalek to me pal"

I was thinking about the plane crash that Nigel Farage survived and how it made him feel like he was spared to bring about all of this bullshit - and how that makes him like the Reverse Buddy Holly, sort of like the Reverse Flash - but then I developed this idea in my head more than I wanted to.

I saw some scoundrel posting earlier that every time they see the name "Andy Burnham" they hear it sung to the tune of David Bowie's song "Andy Warhol" - and now I will be the scoundrel for you.

I opted not to do any magic tonight because I didn't want to walk out into the oncoming traffic of football magic going back and forwards between Brazil and Haiti...

I keep getting spam emails about "managing toxic behavior in the workplace" from someone called "Peter Tosh".... does it involve the use of a stepping razor?

Still life of a Vesper Martini, the Duke Ellington LP in a mellotone, and the Jonas Sufurino edition of El Libro de San Cipriano in Spanish.

I want England to win the World Cup much less than I want David Baddiel and Frank Skinner to never experience England winning the World Cup in their lifetimes.

RIP Stranger Cole youtu.be/0walg9aDMJk?...

a reminder that the shadow cast by the kitchen tap in my old apartment in Miami predicted all of this in 2013.

I don't know what everyone's complaining about. Just go to settings > features > worms, then change the "worms pouring out of my phone" toggle from "yes" to "maybe later"

Oh dear... have come back from Karate, drank a Vesper Martini, and am being the absolute worst circa-2000 online version of myself to hapless unsuspecting manosphere dicks over on Threads...

I didn't much care for Jean Michel Jarre here to begin with aside from his book on geomancy and the Oxygene LP. Didn't like his permaculture accelerationist era before he went full Maga either. All just seemed a bit... not just fatalistic but actively gleeful about the impending climate apocalypse.

They should do remakes of The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, Casablanca, etc, with Nicolas Cage in the Bogart roles. Let him have spider-powers in them if he wants to.

I passed my first belt grading test this evening and have been promoted out of white belt to Rhokokyu in Okinawan Shorin Ryu and in Shudokan Karate-do. Which is some small accomplishment post-hip replacement. Next stop green belt.

When your shitposting elsewhere accidentally inspires an occult blacksmith-forged apotropiac charm to be made for conserving your last fucks so that they can be given when and where needed the most. Made by @trollcunningforge and available in his Etsy store. www.etsy.com/listing/4511...

In the spirit of repurposing the tools that you work with for self-defense, I eventually plan on learning how to protect myself using only my monthly subscription to Adobe Indesign.

The people who go on about AI being "inevitable" also say things like "it's here - we have to befriend it" - as if it's first contact with a genuine emerging form of artificial consciousness instead of just the spicy autocorrect plagiarism bot being aggressively marketed as that.

One of the weapons they teach at black belt in my Karate class is the Noburikama - which is a six-foot scythe - as the Okinawan weapons are all repurposed farming tools. I'm trying to think of a situation where I might use that though - "let me just go get my scythe and we'll see about that pal."

there's a direct line between the people who think Homelander would somehow be innately "powerful" without his superpowers, and the people who think that if you drop a billionaire into any environment with $5 they would be a millionaire again in a year - and it's a line of bootlicking man-children.

another great one on this Doctor Bird label youtu.be/DRJ9M8bKy38?...

Looksminimizing is when you take the severed hand of a murderer hanged at the crossroads, pickle it in salt and urine, hang it on an oak tree for 3 nights, and then burn a candle made from human fat, sesame oil and horse dung in the grip of the prepared hand in order to move unseen among the people.

This is a good overview of the various overlapping iterations of these dicks. I was always confused how the version that I remember as mostly being the punchline to UK chaos magic jokes in the 90s suddenly seemed to become a much bigger more dangerous thing - but they didn't.

This Sam Cooke cover goes much harder than it has any business going. It's another one of these where it's like they are trying to invent quite weird experimental dance music that won't exist for another 30 years and they don't really have the tech to do it yet. youtu.be/VJdelW0phvY?...

Accidentally thought of a Hellraiser sequel called Pinhead Moonstomp. youtu.be/PWvRr8XxDhU?...

The new vinyl reissue of my wife's psych-folk LP with the 18th Day of May is featured record of the week on the Freak Zone with Stuart Maconie on Radio 6 right now. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

The percussion on this Skatalites record from 1965 sounds almost like electronic dance music. You can sort of hear a bit of UK drum and bass in this, and also in the context of the Four Aces in Dalston later turning into Labyrinth. youtu.be/iJE47AyWgF0?...

I really need to see these films from the Shaw Brothers 60s spy era.

people angry here that D&D is no longer the stoic manly pursuit that it once was and has become flamboyantly gay because of woke.

I haven't listened to this record for ages and glad it has a nice reissue. I liked a lot of the music from that little psych-folk scene that happened for a bit in the early 00s. This was always my favourite one from this LP. circuitryrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/lady-m...

A nice review in the Quietus of my wife's psych-folk LP with the 18th Day of May from 2005, which is getting a vinyl reissue this week. buff.ly/P9ROuiv

I wanted to write a book on chaos magic and then see if I could get the rights to publish something written by Ed Milliband as an appendix so I could call it 'Chaos with Ed Milliband'.

apropos of nothing - but it seems incredibly cowardly to me how the people pushing plandemic great reset conspiracies never stopped for a moment to address how there was no discernible "reset" whatsoever, and it just went back to business as usual at the first opportunity with no lessons learned. 1/

If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all. So that'll be a sizeable portion of not saying anything at all for me today.

Apparently I made this a year ago today - still seems pertinent

obligatory topical reggae 45 youtu.be/DQhRN0Phpuc?...

Only Fantomas

I have a meeting coming up on using AI as a tool within the editorial department - and I'm trying to think of a professional way of communicating my perspective on AI. Would it be work-appropriate language to describe it as "a pestilence"?

Happy May Day.

Beltline is an ancient festival celebrated on May 1 that marks the beginning of summer, fertility, and the peak of spring. Happy Beltline! beltline.org/visit

I think it's very funny how Atlanta has an English theme pub that unintentionally looks exactly like a flat-roofed red brick murder pub on an estate.

Trying to convince people on Threads that the reason why the Romans left England is because they dug too deep into the mines and discovered something terrible buried deep below the land and then fled having awoken the ancient blight...