Fellow music nerds, join me @record.club music social media network - you can make lists, keep track of music on rotation, pick your top records..I'm really enjoying it! I've already listed my top 10 Belgian albums and have started a list with my top EPs of all time... record.club/flame_me_up

Here are our 10 albums of the decade so far - check out our latest episode to find out more 💿 Are there any overlaps for you - and what are your top 2020s records? Listen to our latest ep here ➡️ linktr.ee/overunderrat... #podcast #musicpodcast #britpodscene #bestof2025 #albumsofthedecade

Anyone still posting on X is the online equivalent of a friend of Epstein. I don’t care how many followers you have, and how long it took you to build that following. (They don’t see or engage with your posts anyway.) Leave. Now.

if they can offer free AI training they could offer free media literacy training too. i know which of those would do more for the public good

ai companies: our ai product is so intuitive, you’ll forget how you ever coped without it! everyone normal: huh this is shit ai companies: oh man sorry to hear you’re too thick to understand how to use it, we should get the government involved in educating you

Calling transphobia a 'gateway drug' to the far right undersells it. It's pure accelerant. Grimly fascinating to guess what crankery becomes any famous transphobe's secondary obsession, cos they all have one: 15 minute cities are fascism! Grok noncing is cool! ICE are good! We should kill all dogs!

NEW | Wind and solar generated more power than fossil fuels in the EU for the FIRST time ever. 🌪️ and ☀️ made up a RECORD 30% of 🇪🇺 electricity, up from 20% just five years ago. https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/european-electricity-review-2026/

I feel bad for all of us who have to be good at our jobs when the answer is to be sufficiently white, rich and powerful and then you can just drool on yourself and the press will be like “audiences intrigued by his unusual communication style”

I honestly look forward to these more than most British Xmas telly - @jakemc24.bsky.social is a genius

Hard agree

Cancel your Spotify subscription.

I am once again reminding you all that the UK government introduced an Online Safety Act that is effectively a porn ban on most adult porn websites, but is dithering over banning a website that is actually creating child porn.

The fact that so many ostensibly progressive people still use X is so demotivating. If we as a collective can't even stop using a social media website that was launched two decades ago, we have zero chance of dismantling infinitely more complex power structures that have existed for millennia.

Sixth year in a row doing this, love the process and it inspires me to keep up to date, musically!

Sixth year in a row doing this, love the process and it inspires me to keep up to date, musically!

This is ridiculous. There clearly has not been a 660% increase in terrorism in the UK over the past year. How much is it costing the criminal justice system to arrest and prosecute all these people for the crime of wearing a t-shirt or holding a placard? news.sky.com/story/terror...

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions. It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.

Guessing people boycotting Carrefour as part of Israel BDS - as I am - is also having an impact

This cross-pollination IS how new ideas happen. EVERY field needs humanistic thinking, that's why they call PhDs "Doctors of Philosophy"

Don't be like Liam, the miserable old bore sat counting his dynamically-price-gouged Oasis tour coin like Smaug the dragon on his mountain of gold – get stuck into the joy of the new in tQ's albums of 2025: thequietus.com/tq-charts/al...

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

When Tommy Robinson is celebrating your policies it is time to take a long hard look in the mirror and then quit politics forever.

absolutely FURIOUS about this today

Today's soundtrack in the café I'm working from has so far included: The Cardigans - Erase/Rewind Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out Ace of Base - All That She Wants Laura Branigan - Self Control Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere And I haven't been the only one singing along quietly 🎵

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

For years, but especially for the past year, Democrats have been in thrall to the idea that they need to chase an imagined median voter, and adopt that voter’s positions. Mamdani’s victory shows another way: hold principles, and persuade people to share them.

sorry but nothing can be worth $5 trillion, we don't live in a cartoon

Minority representation on TV causes outrage From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Chatbots have an impact specifically on the brains of bosses and managers that ought to be subject to an entire new field of social science www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?

Les concentrations de dioxide d'azote ont presque chuté de moitié en 6 ans

My photoshop/Canva skills are second to NONE (i.e. please hire me for my other much more developed comms skills, thank you)

Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.

Got a job thanks to telling people on Twitter about my MSc dissertation, another job thanks to connecting with someone I didn't know on LinkedIn, moved to Brussels (where I have been since 2013) thanks to talking to who would become my future boss on Twitter

Happy Taylor Swift release day to those who celebrate 😉

A genius comic actor, Keeping Up Appearances remains a frequently-quoted TV show in my family, and I'm so lucky I got to see her playing Lady Bracknall in 1999...RIP

So refreshing to hear a British political leader frame the debate in this way

Just signed the Brussels Greens' petition for more car-free days in Brussels, 100% yes please 🚲 www.groenbrussel.be/meer_autoloz... @groenbe.bsky.social

Kirk’s ‘memorial’ getting a live coverage on The Guardian is a great example of how the right gets automatically framed as the default political movement to be ‘understood’ while the victims of that same movement never will never get the same amount of coverage

🎤 NEW EPISODE 🎤 …Ready For It? We’re finally rating pop juggernaut Taylor Swift - alongside South African artist Baby Queen - in our latest discussion on pop singer-songwriters 🎸 Listen to our latest ep here ➡️ linktr.ee/overunderrat... #podcast #musicpodcast #britpodscene #taylorswift #babyqueen

In the Brussels region, cars occupy 53.2% of public space, according to this calculation. www.lesoir.be/699649/artic...

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

Here's how the real two-tier Britain works: 1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off. 2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵

I don’t want to be too shrill about this but I think the BBC, ITV and Sky have disgraced themselves in their coverage of the anti-refugee protests. A massive failure of judgement. But now we know the next time a progressive protest “isn’t news” that it’s nothing to do with numbers

Some incredibly good news: One year ago this week, The Onion returned to print. In that one year, we’ve grown to the 13th largest print newspaper in the United States, just ahead of the Boston Globe, and growing fast. In short, it’s working. So… thank you. Thank you for helping save this thing.