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· Sep 26
Music for Sleeping Cats by Steven Poole
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my new album, MUSIC FOR SLEEPING CATS, is out today album.link/musicforslee...
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BBC Radio 3 Unwind
The Sleeping Forecast: Fall soundly asleep with dreamy classical music
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Au Bistrot
The Sleeping Forecast: Fall soundly asleep with dreamy classical music
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Steven Poole
Au Bistrot
December 2, 2025 at 12:13 AM
BBC Radio 3 Unwind
The Sleeping Forecast: Fall soundly asleep with dreamy classical music
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Steven Poole
Au Bistrot
The Sleeping Forecast: Fall soundly asleep with dreamy classical music
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Steven Poole
Au Bistrot
wrapped for artists 🎹🤘🏻
December 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
wrapped for artists 🎹🤘🏻
here i am in @wsj.com on the amazing world of undersea cables www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
‘The Web Beneath the Waves’ Review: A Crisis of Cables
The routes of competing undersea cables are convoluted and geopolitically tangled. They are also easy for would-be saboteurs to find.
www.wsj.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
here i am in @wsj.com on the amazing world of undersea cables www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
but in what sense is American Canto really or actually a canto? in this essay i will, nah fuck it
December 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM
but in what sense is American Canto really or actually a canto? in this essay i will, nah fuck it
time to renew my plea to fellow book reviewers: do not call a book "unforgettable" unless you have spent at least 10 years trying to forget it
December 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
time to renew my plea to fellow book reviewers: do not call a book "unforgettable" unless you have spent at least 10 years trying to forget it
still nothing huh
no one?
whatever happened about all those drones in American skies last year that Trump promised to tell everyone the truth about
December 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
still nothing huh
I'm old enough to remember when Chris Mason used to be wheeled on as comic relief on PM under Eddie Mair, and here we are
No that's not *your* on *our behalf*. Your job is to report the story, presenting all sides fairly and then *we* call it. What Mason is saying here is fundamentally not what the bbc is for!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
December 1, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I'm old enough to remember when Chris Mason used to be wheeled on as comic relief on PM under Eddie Mair, and here we are
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COMING SOON: AI + Guy™
December 1, 2025 at 1:11 AM
COMING SOON: AI + Guy™
it's Your Party and I'll cry if I want to
November 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
it's Your Party and I'll cry if I want to
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life hack: get good writing printed out on nice paper and delivered to your letterbox on a regular basis
November 27, 2025 at 7:43 PM
life hack: get good writing printed out on nice paper and delivered to your letterbox on a regular basis
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BBC Radio 3 Unwind
The Sleeping Forecast: Hunker down and drift away
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You Will Walk Where Others Fear To
The Sleeping Forecast: Hunker down and drift away
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You Will Walk Where Others Fear To
November 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
BBC Radio 3 Unwind
The Sleeping Forecast: Hunker down and drift away
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Steven Poole
You Will Walk Where Others Fear To
The Sleeping Forecast: Hunker down and drift away
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Steven Poole
You Will Walk Where Others Fear To
life hack: get good writing printed out on nice paper and delivered to your letterbox on a regular basis
November 27, 2025 at 7:43 PM
life hack: get good writing printed out on nice paper and delivered to your letterbox on a regular basis
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Fantastic news!
November 27, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Fantastic news!
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no one?
whatever happened about all those drones in American skies last year that Trump promised to tell everyone the truth about
November 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
no one?
i don't think that keeping the freeze on fuel duty while introducing a new tax aimed only at EVs is a good idea; change my mind
November 26, 2025 at 8:05 PM
i don't think that keeping the freeze on fuel duty while introducing a new tax aimed only at EVs is a good idea; change my mind
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
the real scandal is that this doofus was invited to give the Reith lectures in the first place www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Reith lecturer accuses BBC of cowardice for censoring his remarks on Trump
Dutch writer Rutger Bregman says claim that Trump was ‘most openly corrupt president in US history’ was removed
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
the real scandal is that this doofus was invited to give the Reith lectures in the first place www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
no one?
whatever happened about all those drones in American skies last year that Trump promised to tell everyone the truth about
November 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
no one?
look, if we're determined to piss all over England's ancient liberties in the name of efficiency, then this is weak sauce. obviously we should henceforth have all criminal trials decided by AI chatbots www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Justice secretary wants most jury trials scrapped
Only cases of alleged murder, rape or manslaughter will be decided by a jury under new proposals to cut court backlogs.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
look, if we're determined to piss all over England's ancient liberties in the name of efficiency, then this is weak sauce. obviously we should henceforth have all criminal trials decided by AI chatbots www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/
November 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/
actually if you were into grunge you understood that "Come Together" was seminal
As someone who is also this guy’s age I can tell you 100% this wasn’t hard at all. The Beatles were Boomer music and they were shoved down your throat everywhere and they reeked of your parents’ nostalgia. Nobody I knew liked The Beatles.
If you were into grunge, *everything* was your enemy.
If you were into grunge, *everything* was your enemy.
As someone who is this guy's age I can tell you 100% that if you were into Pixies, Nirvana, 120 Minutes stuff, etc. but didn't like the Beatles you had to have worked hard to contort yourself into that special little box. Your enemy, if you absolutely needed one, was hair metal. GTFO here with this.
November 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
actually if you were into grunge you understood that "Come Together" was seminal
whatever happened about all those drones in American skies last year that Trump promised to tell everyone the truth about
November 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
whatever happened about all those drones in American skies last year that Trump promised to tell everyone the truth about
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Me at the LRB blog on the atrocious refugee policy of Mahmood and Starmer
Christopher Bertram | ‘Core Protection’
Refugeehood is not supposed to be like this. The ideal envisaged by the Refugee Convention is that refugee status should...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Me at the LRB blog on the atrocious refugee policy of Mahmood and Starmer
here i am in the Graun on a life of Terry Jones www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
Seriously Silly: The Life of Terry Jones by Robert Ross review – portrait of a Python
An affectionate biography of the polymath includes details of never-produced gems such as Monty Python’s Third World War
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:08 AM
here i am in the Graun on a life of Terry Jones www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...