DJ Punctum
@djpunctum.bsky.social
"Modern medicine is not a line where you left your fossils." Married to an American so watch it. Co-author of the now completed Then Play Long blog (https://nobilliards.blogspot.com).
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On Bad Bunny last night: how he staged the boricua quotidian. The last two minutes played as much as an elegy to an endangered hemispheric comity as an Epcot parade. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/02/09/t...
The boricua quotidian: Bad Bunny
Around 2018 I could not step into a rideshare vehicle in Miami without the driver greeting me with a Bad Bunny track. A reggaeton agnostic, I endured rather than absorbed the ambience. I loosened u…
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February 9, 2026 at 4:53 PM
On Bad Bunny last night: how he staged the boricua quotidian. The last two minutes played as much as an elegy to an endangered hemispheric comity as an Epcot parade. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/02/09/t...
This Is Pop. This Is Life.
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Bad Bunny's Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show
YouTube video by NFL
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February 9, 2026 at 8:58 PM
This Is Pop. This Is Life.
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Puritanism and fascism; two sides of a particularly deadly coin.
starting to feel like there's a direct relationship between the growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine (no drinking, no caffeine, no sex, obsessive working out and looksmaxxing) and the inability to meaningful moral stands on issues of actual import
Cafes across the U.S. are embracing the low- and no-caffeine lifestyle, with options that are a far cry from dusty tea bags and rewarmed decaf. nyti.ms/3XKlqoj
February 9, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Puritanism and fascism; two sides of a particularly deadly coin.
UK album chart early midweeks, and an early sign of ageing is not recognising half the names in the top five:
1 Olivia Dean - The Art of Loving (6,190)
2 Joji - Piss in the Wind (4,710)
3 IST IST - DAGGER (4,554)
4 J. Cole - The Fall-Off (4,080)
5 Lorien Testard - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (2,946)
1 Olivia Dean - The Art of Loving (6,190)
2 Joji - Piss in the Wind (4,710)
3 IST IST - DAGGER (4,554)
4 J. Cole - The Fall-Off (4,080)
5 Lorien Testard - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (2,946)
February 9, 2026 at 8:02 PM
UK album chart early midweeks, and an early sign of ageing is not recognising half the names in the top five:
1 Olivia Dean - The Art of Loving (6,190)
2 Joji - Piss in the Wind (4,710)
3 IST IST - DAGGER (4,554)
4 J. Cole - The Fall-Off (4,080)
5 Lorien Testard - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (2,946)
1 Olivia Dean - The Art of Loving (6,190)
2 Joji - Piss in the Wind (4,710)
3 IST IST - DAGGER (4,554)
4 J. Cole - The Fall-Off (4,080)
5 Lorien Testard - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (2,946)
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Starmer has not so much “lost the dressing room” as curled out a turd on the dressing room floor before assuring the team that he was advised by someone else that defecating there would really impress another team owner who is absolutely smeared with shit.
February 8, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Starmer has not so much “lost the dressing room” as curled out a turd on the dressing room floor before assuring the team that he was advised by someone else that defecating there would really impress another team owner who is absolutely smeared with shit.
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If you missed my radio show tonight the web version is now up at itsasmallworld.neocities.org/othershows with 17 supplemental videos and you can catch up on my previous side shows at www.mixcloud.com/keir-hardie/...
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It's A Small World
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February 8, 2026 at 8:04 PM
If you missed my radio show tonight the web version is now up at itsasmallworld.neocities.org/othershows with 17 supplemental videos and you can catch up on my previous side shows at www.mixcloud.com/keir-hardie/...
@noiseboxradio.com
@noiseboxradio.com
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This week’s listening.
February 8, 2026 at 6:43 PM
This week’s listening.
Mark Haddon in today's Observer giggling about free jazz, experimental music etc. being "wife-frightening music." Abruptly have no further concern about his personal welfare. Apparently the term was used by a branch of Borders. No wonder they went bust. Good riddance.
February 8, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Mark Haddon in today's Observer giggling about free jazz, experimental music etc. being "wife-frightening music." Abruptly have no further concern about his personal welfare. Apparently the term was used by a branch of Borders. No wonder they went bust. Good riddance.
Both Guardian and Observer reviews of the new Mandy, Indiana album - and this is a really major album, btw - are dully and deadly descriptive when they should be exploding with fury, irrationality and ecstasy. Oh I forgot, that puts off Gareth Centrist-Reader who hasn't bought an album since 1986.
February 8, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Both Guardian and Observer reviews of the new Mandy, Indiana album - and this is a really major album, btw - are dully and deadly descriptive when they should be exploding with fury, irrationality and ecstasy. Oh I forgot, that puts off Gareth Centrist-Reader who hasn't bought an album since 1986.
Put the actual radio back on because I was sick of internet radio automatically cutting out for energy (i.e. money)-saving reasons when I was doing things. Look, computer, you're not a Tamagotchi pet demanding all my attention all the time or you'll die. I have a life. You're not THAT important.
February 8, 2026 at 12:35 PM
Put the actual radio back on because I was sick of internet radio automatically cutting out for energy (i.e. money)-saving reasons when I was doing things. Look, computer, you're not a Tamagotchi pet demanding all my attention all the time or you'll die. I have a life. You're not THAT important.
I'd like it better if they put an escalator in. Those stairs are bothersome.
Favourite Stations - Gloucester Road
Meet Anthony, a content creator and the face behind HiddenGemsLondon. His favourite Underground station is Gloucester Road.
I've started exploring people's favourite stations or stops on the London Underground Tube Map. L
What's your favourite station?
Meet Anthony, a content creator and the face behind HiddenGemsLondon. His favourite Underground station is Gloucester Road.
I've started exploring people's favourite stations or stops on the London Underground Tube Map. L
What's your favourite station?
February 8, 2026 at 10:42 AM
I'd like it better if they put an escalator in. Those stairs are bothersome.
"Sixpence is two-and-a-half new pence." British values as I understand them #AskYourParents
February 8, 2026 at 10:40 AM
"Sixpence is two-and-a-half new pence." British values as I understand them #AskYourParents
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Young Punctum is fantastic from end to end and this is a magnificent and moving conclusion. Most of my minute readership doubtless already know this but if you don’t, my goodness get on to it.
Sunday morning repost. Why not? Due to work commitments L & I are only getting to look at this in detail today. I couldn't find any space for Ole Ola but most other good things from '78 are in here.
Saturday morning repost. The conclusion to Young Punctum, complete with things you didn't previously know abt me, two polemics and, most importantly, all the music that hit me at the time as well as the actual hits. Plus a bit of point-proving time-travelling:
funthirty.blogspot.com/2026/02/apri...
funthirty.blogspot.com/2026/02/apri...
February 8, 2026 at 10:28 AM
Young Punctum is fantastic from end to end and this is a magnificent and moving conclusion. Most of my minute readership doubtless already know this but if you don’t, my goodness get on to it.
Sunday morning repost. Why not? Due to work commitments L & I are only getting to look at this in detail today. I couldn't find any space for Ole Ola but most other good things from '78 are in here.
Saturday morning repost. The conclusion to Young Punctum, complete with things you didn't previously know abt me, two polemics and, most importantly, all the music that hit me at the time as well as the actual hits. Plus a bit of point-proving time-travelling:
funthirty.blogspot.com/2026/02/apri...
funthirty.blogspot.com/2026/02/apri...
APRIL-6 MAY 1978
Well, here it is – the closing chapter of Young Punctum . There is no more because I stopped writing it after 6 May 1978. In the follo...
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February 8, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Sunday morning repost. Why not? Due to work commitments L & I are only getting to look at this in detail today. I couldn't find any space for Ole Ola but most other good things from '78 are in here.
Add an "uh" and you've got a Dragnet-era Fall lyric there.
Every young person sentence online reads like this to me now:
"Bro entered low-stim flow state doing a 10 min grocery rotation and got mogged by a friendly neighborhood cat 💀 Is proximity-maxxing essentials while touch-grass-pilled more optimal than suburb-meta carbrained bulk errands?"
"Bro entered low-stim flow state doing a 10 min grocery rotation and got mogged by a friendly neighborhood cat 💀 Is proximity-maxxing essentials while touch-grass-pilled more optimal than suburb-meta carbrained bulk errands?"
February 8, 2026 at 10:03 AM
Add an "uh" and you've got a Dragnet-era Fall lyric there.
It's always been that way, though. In 1954 teenagers didn't exist. You were nice little kids who kept quiet and obedient, then you became miniature replicas of your parents. Children have always been damned and traduced for the "crime" of not being adults. Victorian values we can't shake off.
Kids can't hang out in parks. They can't hang out at the mall. They don't have 3rd spaces because no one wants kids around and then we are surprised when they rely on SM for connection.
If you take that away, what do they have left?
If you take that away, what do they have left?
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The impacts of locking under 16 yos from their social media networks are now beginning to bite for those young people who relied on them for social connection
The impacts of locking under 16 yos from their social media networks are now beginning to bite for those young people who relied on them for social connection
February 8, 2026 at 10:02 AM
It's always been that way, though. In 1954 teenagers didn't exist. You were nice little kids who kept quiet and obedient, then you became miniature replicas of your parents. Children have always been damned and traduced for the "crime" of not being adults. Victorian values we can't shake off.
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Really enjoyed this interview and it's refreshing that the journalist says she doesn't agree with all of my politics but still engages with the ideas.
You don't have to agree with me on everything. Just the basics: it's time to make hope normal again.
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You don't have to agree with me on everything. Just the basics: it's time to make hope normal again.
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
Zack Polanski: I thought what Keir Starmer said about me was vile
Green leader Zack Polanski is taking the fight to Labour with his brand of eco-populism — but while he’s riding high in the polls, do his economic policies really stack up?
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February 6, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Really enjoyed this interview and it's refreshing that the journalist says she doesn't agree with all of my politics but still engages with the ideas.
You don't have to agree with me on everything. Just the basics: it's time to make hope normal again.
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
You don't have to agree with me on everything. Just the basics: it's time to make hope normal again.
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
Nothing wrong with cheese! I'd much rather be thought of as cheesy than evil...good piece (btw I am not the "Marcello" quoted in the piece; by the description he certainly looks nothing like me and I certainly don't live anywhere near Hackney)!
From Heaven to Palantir HQ, from Yorkshire to our Bold Politics studio - great to have legendary journalist Simon Hattenstone follow me around.
Here's what he saw in his report:
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Here's what he saw in his report:
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘Am I at peak popularity? I hope not’: on the road with Zack Polanski, from protest to podcast to Heaven nightclub
With polls and membership at an all-time high, the Green party are having a moment – and it’s largely down to their charismatic (if slightly cheesy) new leader. Can he really pull off a socialist revo...
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February 7, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Nothing wrong with cheese! I'd much rather be thought of as cheesy than evil...good piece (btw I am not the "Marcello" quoted in the piece; by the description he certainly looks nothing like me and I certainly don't live anywhere near Hackney)!
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BBC News - Gorton and Denton by-election: Zack Polanski urges 'hope over hate' - BBC News
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Gorton and Denton by-election: Zack Polanski urges 'hope over hate'
Zack Polanski joined candidate Hannah Spencer, a councillor and plumber, on the campaign trail.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 7, 2026 at 5:10 PM
BBC News - Gorton and Denton by-election: Zack Polanski urges 'hope over hate' - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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tag yrself im a formidable mediocrity
February 7, 2026 at 8:07 PM
tag yrself im a formidable mediocrity
Britain, eh? Stop wasting what remains of your lives watching shitty old pop shows that you know you hate and watch some real music being played instead (I'm an old fart now, deal with it).
Germany in the 70s had Beat Club, France had Pop 2 (ou Pop Deux), while we were stuck with the shitty old Whistle Test. Look at this lot:
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Pop 2 ou Pop Deux ☆ 1970-1974 : Patrice Blanc-Francard : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Pop 2 ou Pop Deux ☆ 1970-1974 Bonjour c'est Pop 2 : Patrice Blanc-Francard présente ce magazine musical audacieux, rendez-vous incontournable de la...
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February 7, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Britain, eh? Stop wasting what remains of your lives watching shitty old pop shows that you know you hate and watch some real music being played instead (I'm an old fart now, deal with it).
Saturday morning repost. The conclusion to Young Punctum, complete with things you didn't previously know abt me, two polemics and, most importantly, all the music that hit me at the time as well as the actual hits. Plus a bit of point-proving time-travelling:
funthirty.blogspot.com/2026/02/apri...
funthirty.blogspot.com/2026/02/apri...
APRIL-6 MAY 1978
Well, here it is – the closing chapter of Young Punctum . There is no more because I stopped writing it after 6 May 1978. In the follo...
funthirty.blogspot.com
February 7, 2026 at 10:36 AM
Saturday morning repost. The conclusion to Young Punctum, complete with things you didn't previously know abt me, two polemics and, most importantly, all the music that hit me at the time as well as the actual hits. Plus a bit of point-proving time-travelling:
funthirty.blogspot.com/2026/02/apri...
funthirty.blogspot.com/2026/02/apri...
One of the greatest sequences in cinema. If only I could write like Welles directs.
"...be of good heart, cry the dead artists out of the living past, our songs will all be silenced, but what of it, go on singing..." youtu.be/VGPPUY40Y7k?...
F For Fake: Chartres
YouTube video by captvanhalen
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February 7, 2026 at 7:36 AM
One of the greatest sequences in cinema. If only I could write like Welles directs.
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A million things to love about "Marquee Moon" of course, but the little drop Smith adds when everything breaks down into a million pieces is genius — like a boat going over Niagara Falls
February 6, 2026 at 10:30 PM
A million things to love about "Marquee Moon" of course, but the little drop Smith adds when everything breaks down into a million pieces is genius — like a boat going over Niagara Falls
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Thank you for all your labours on this fantastic blog; I shall greatly miss it.
February 6, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Thank you for all your labours on this fantastic blog; I shall greatly miss it.