DJ Punctum
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"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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In seventies Uddingston they were already doing this so it's (a) nothing new; (b) one of many reasons why I got the hell out of there when I could and did.
🔴NEW: Books are being removed or restricted in Scottish school libraries following complaints, creating a “chilling effect” that campaigners warn threatens both freedom of speech and inclusive education.
Read the story: https://www.theferret.scot/books-scottish-schools-librarians/
Read the story: https://www.theferret.scot/books-scottish-schools-librarians/
February 11, 2026 at 7:37 AM
In seventies Uddingston they were already doing this so it's (a) nothing new; (b) one of many reasons why I got the hell out of there when I could and did.
Mixcloud really is fucking dinosaur shit, isn't it?
February 10, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Mixcloud really is fucking dinosaur shit, isn't it?
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NEW | On Wes Streeting’s late-in-the-day denunciation of Mandelson…
WES STREETING’S MARIAH CAREY METHOD
Just how stupid does the cabinet minister think we are as he denies the extent of his relationship with Peter Mandelson? Very.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/wes-street...
WES STREETING’S MARIAH CAREY METHOD
Just how stupid does the cabinet minister think we are as he denies the extent of his relationship with Peter Mandelson? Very.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/wes-street...
Wes Streeting's Mariah Carey method
Just how stupid does the cabinet minister think we are as he denies the extent of his relationship with Peter Mandelson? Very.
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February 10, 2026 at 3:00 PM
NEW | On Wes Streeting’s late-in-the-day denunciation of Mandelson…
WES STREETING’S MARIAH CAREY METHOD
Just how stupid does the cabinet minister think we are as he denies the extent of his relationship with Peter Mandelson? Very.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/wes-street...
WES STREETING’S MARIAH CAREY METHOD
Just how stupid does the cabinet minister think we are as he denies the extent of his relationship with Peter Mandelson? Very.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/wes-street...
Oh noes an internet radio station is asking for donations while advertising itself as playing "real music." I despise Real Music with capital letters and/or within inverted commas so they won't be getting any money from me. Their idea of "real music" btw is Frank Sidebottom and Chas & Dave.
February 10, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Oh noes an internet radio station is asking for donations while advertising itself as playing "real music." I despise Real Music with capital letters and/or within inverted commas so they won't be getting any money from me. Their idea of "real music" btw is Frank Sidebottom and Chas & Dave.
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Lots to marvel at here, but marvel most at the fact that this went out in the schools programme education slot on a weekday. "The past is a foreign country". Not if you spoke the language.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7xi...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7xi...
Kevin Ayers with Robert Wyatt etc improvisation ILEA TV 1972
YouTube video by Nuthatch
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February 10, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Lots to marvel at here, but marvel most at the fact that this went out in the schools programme education slot on a weekday. "The past is a foreign country". Not if you spoke the language.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7xi...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7xi...
Dismal journey home tonight. To liken London's current transport system to the Third World would be an insult to the latter. Thank Christ I only have to endure this three days a week now.
February 10, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Dismal journey home tonight. To liken London's current transport system to the Third World would be an insult to the latter. Thank Christ I only have to endure this three days a week now.
That Yogi Bear post would have been funny, and I would have reposted it, if it hadn't been for the jokesplaining original beneath it.
February 10, 2026 at 7:35 PM
That Yogi Bear post would have been funny, and I would have reposted it, if it hadn't been for the jokesplaining original beneath it.
Then Every Breath You Take came out and suddenly it didn't.
This is Men At Work's second album Cargo - the one with less well remembered Overkill and even less well remembered Dr. Heckyll And Mr. Jive on it - and without wanting to be rude about that cover, you do have to wonder if they even wanted it to sell...
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February 10, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Then Every Breath You Take came out and suddenly it didn't.
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Vince Guaraldi’s first television performance of Linus and Lucy, from 1964. youtu.be/9EMfA5_tm8Y?...
Vince Guaraldi - earliest television recording of "Linus and Lucy"
YouTube video by Lee Mendelson Film Productions, Inc.
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February 10, 2026 at 9:07 AM
Vince Guaraldi’s first television performance of Linus and Lucy, from 1964. youtu.be/9EMfA5_tm8Y?...
The Guardian, eh? Yesterday someone argued that the phrase "thank you" should be banned, today it's Streeting saying who's this Mandyson guy, I never even seen him in my life and SDP Grandma whining about Real Issues. The newspaper that killed the Labour Party. Hope they're happy about that.
February 10, 2026 at 8:18 AM
The Guardian, eh? Yesterday someone argued that the phrase "thank you" should be banned, today it's Streeting saying who's this Mandyson guy, I never even seen him in my life and SDP Grandma whining about Real Issues. The newspaper that killed the Labour Party. Hope they're happy about that.
Reminds me of J*mmy S*v*le in the Sunday People (I think?) in Aug '77 saying that The Elvis I Knew Was No Junkie.
February 10, 2026 at 8:16 AM
Reminds me of J*mmy S*v*le in the Sunday People (I think?) in Aug '77 saying that The Elvis I Knew Was No Junkie.
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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.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Fu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Fu...
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.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Fu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Fu...
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)
Technically the first British boy band was probably either the King Brothers or the Dallas Boys (which latter were actually from Leicester). Only Boom Radio listeners and @rockingbob.bsky.social would know what I was talking about there.
February 9, 2026 at 8:29 AM
Technically the first British boy band was probably either the King Brothers or the Dallas Boys (which latter were actually from Leicester). Only Boom Radio listeners and @rockingbob.bsky.social would know what I was talking about there.
Can we go back to Today as it was in the seventies with Jack de Manio not knowing who those Beatles bands were and it all went downhill after Anne Ziegler and Webster Booth? #YouKnewWhereYouWere
February 9, 2026 at 8:21 AM
Can we go back to Today as it was in the seventies with Jack de Manio not knowing who those Beatles bands were and it all went downhill after Anne Ziegler and Webster Booth? #YouKnewWhereYouWere
Who "wrote" that - was it Claude or Ralph?
February 9, 2026 at 8:02 AM
Who "wrote" that - was it Claude or Ralph?
Five minutes and eleven seconds of an intro. Bridge Over Troubled Water was 4.59.
February 8, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Five minutes and eleven seconds of an intro. Bridge Over Troubled Water was 4.59.
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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
I'm afraid "Aperture" bored me witless. Pounds Shillings and Pence Soundsystem morelike.
February 8, 2026 at 8:03 PM
I'm afraid "Aperture" bored me witless. Pounds Shillings and Pence Soundsystem morelike.
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This week’s listening.
February 8, 2026 at 6:43 PM
This week’s listening.
It's behind my armchair!
February 8, 2026 at 4:02 PM
It's behind my armchair!