Most played three 2025 releases in my house.

(Tbh I don’t know when the Tad remaster was released but I got it this year and it is fire)

Predictions for 2026:

- 'Dubai' revealed to be a warehouse in Essex

- the rise of Bae-Pop (all baby pop bands) acclaimed by Guardian critics

- Tommy Robinson converts to Rastafarianism

- cat milk lattes launched

- Strictly Ozempic special

- Linehan transitions

- Wales (finally) invades US

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Oh no, the Chinese version of the shitty plagiarism machine is better than the domestic one we also never wanted!

Counterpoint: Do

I had fun talking to the 'Paul Or Nothing' podcast about Paul McCartney, the 1990s, music criticism and other matters. (As Sam says in his blurb, "WARNING: we are both digressers.") Tune in here: mccartneypod.podbean.com/e/paul-mccar... @reaktionbooks.bsky.social @helenmccusker.bsky.social

It’s that time again

On Spotify’s secret 15 billion streaming man, the man of 656 faces, the Swedish recording artist bigger than Abba… dadadrummer.substack.com/p/656-unexpe...

Glad I am not alone, we have refined the design of urinals, we have made them literal art, and now this. They are in every craft brewery taproom toilet in the UK and they are aesthetic violence.

We need to stop mob rule.

Let’s start with THIS mob.

#MobRule

‘“Ahead of the Pack and Against the Grain” - Royal Trux reissues : www.firerecords.com/royal-trux-s...

an uncomfortable amount of nostalgia for the early internet has thoroughly classist roots. "it was so much better before more people showed up" shut the fuck up

I’ve been here 24hrs and wow, do you all like explaining “how we do things here”. Twitter was a shitshow that no one wants to repeat but there must be more than one way, let us roll our own way.

Hi all. This is my dog. She had just had 7 teeth out the day before this photo. She is fine, just talks with a lisp now.