FULL SPEED AHEAD TO UBER-WOKE, NET-ZEROIST, REJOINERISM
@joemuggs.bsky.social
Like Icarus ascending on beautiful foolish arms
I have bad dreams and I poop a lot.
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I have bad dreams and I poop a lot.
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I mean he wears dresses. And he said "Ice out" at the Grammys.
I know these people say outlandish shit like it's breathing, but in this case, it wasn't actually outlandish at all.
I know these people say outlandish shit like it's breathing, but in this case, it wasn't actually outlandish at all.
February 9, 2026 at 2:45 PM
I mean he wears dresses. And he said "Ice out" at the Grammys.
I know these people say outlandish shit like it's breathing, but in this case, it wasn't actually outlandish at all.
I know these people say outlandish shit like it's breathing, but in this case, it wasn't actually outlandish at all.
I'm not saying it was deliberately Shakespearean but walking trees in the time of a mad king is... resonant!
February 9, 2026 at 8:25 AM
I'm not saying it was deliberately Shakespearean but walking trees in the time of a mad king is... resonant!
a week absorption - it's funny how these sometimes have visual patterns to them, there's some odd little bits of geometry this time
February 8, 2026 at 8:47 PM
a week absorption - it's funny how these sometimes have visual patterns to them, there's some odd little bits of geometry this time
Seven years ago I discovered this phrase.
February 8, 2026 at 10:42 AM
Seven years ago I discovered this phrase.
February 7, 2026 at 5:54 PM
February 7, 2026 at 8:52 AM
Anyway all that came back to me when I was editing the transcript of the incredible @gwennosaunders.bsky.social talking about being around people who are probably now in the Epstein Files. It's live now, you should really go have a look.
![And as you were doing this auditioning and then recording were you going out? As
in, were you like checking other music out? The only... So no, the only places I was going at was - because basically through my dancing, and my friend in Las Vegas, she had this friend who's a model, and I'd just go to terrible places... Like I'd go to places like Tramp's, places like that, and I remember sitting there going, "This is not my world." Like, why?" I'd just be like, this moody... teenager basically, in the corner. God knows what was going on there. And I actually, I
survived and now I realise I survived that because I was out there on my own really. Yeah. Like my friend, she was really into like, you know, hanging out with older men with lots of money and cocaine and I was just... it was like... (winces] Oh, it was such a weird vibe and I just go and I'd just be like, "This is... ugh. Why am I here?" So it was
just like a weird, like, out of body, out of.
"Why am I?" And I remember, actually, I remember when um, Amy Whitehouse's first record, Frank came out. And you know
what, that song, is it like "Fuck Me Pumps" or something?
That's the one. What a song. And I was like, "That's it!" That's like that scene that she sings about in that song, that was it. That was those nights, and it was really weird. It was just odd. And the whole time I was like... Oh and the music was always shit. And everyone was always really racist, but they'd be listening to like R&B and Nelly and like pop music made by, you know, African-American people, and it was just like culture and all of that, and they
were like the most racist, and I was just like, "This is bloody weird."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:amj4ofqfh4rheeic5qrtgo6c/bafkreidcvh4rq5k6ecpz36gkdeveehfd7hnrlvbankdhgy46dbgfebyvqy@jpeg)
![Well, very possibly the worst DJ experience of my life was playing Mahiki 15 once.
Oh, yeah, you see, it's all that. Awful. It was exactly that. The cocktails in the fucking treasure chest with sparklers on and
all that.
All of that stuff and it was really... yeah, it was gross. And the level of musical ignorance, and treating people like "the help" - I had someone come and demand Michael Jackson, practically snapping their fingers at
me as they did... but this was while I was playing Michael Jackson. Yeah, it's weird because it was odd for me though because I'd come out of... I'd come from a family that have no money, then I got into a job that was really good money at the time. You know, it was silly money at the time. So I had money. So I was kind of in this, then I was like hanging out with this girl. who was a model and I'm not a model, and in no way grounded in being that rich, you know? And neither was I interested in anyone around me or like, you know, getting, you know, I wasn't interested in what anyone had to offer in any way, or anything. So it was a kind of a weird surreal experience that was, I always think of, you know, I was so glad to come across like Joan Didion's work. Because I was just thought, "Oh, maybe that's why I've done all of these weird things?" All those things that so often is nothing more than you're sitting there going, "This is mental." Like, you're not there. You're just observing. You're not involved at all. Like even in a nightclub, I wasn't. I was just observing it. So then I guess I thought, "Oh, I must have done it for that reason, you know. Because I'm going
to be a great writer at some point. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was it!" [laughs]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:amj4ofqfh4rheeic5qrtgo6c/bafkreicnhwta7g35dyp5i22zjhfjy7uref3pzkkoglkupduxgrhrvsbmba@jpeg)
February 6, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Anyway all that came back to me when I was editing the transcript of the incredible @gwennosaunders.bsky.social talking about being around people who are probably now in the Epstein Files. It's live now, you should really go have a look.
Yeah that's all very nice but "approximately 68%" of Americans aren't struggling to put food on the table, Jim.
Can I suggest a different "PROMPT ENGINEERING FRAMEWORK" for you that will avoid bullshit surveys and gullible press?
It's called "use words better".
Can I suggest a different "PROMPT ENGINEERING FRAMEWORK" for you that will avoid bullshit surveys and gullible press?
It's called "use words better".
February 5, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Yeah that's all very nice but "approximately 68%" of Americans aren't struggling to put food on the table, Jim.
Can I suggest a different "PROMPT ENGINEERING FRAMEWORK" for you that will avoid bullshit surveys and gullible press?
It's called "use words better".
Can I suggest a different "PROMPT ENGINEERING FRAMEWORK" for you that will avoid bullshit surveys and gullible press?
It's called "use words better".
I'm almost boring MYSELF by constantly bringing this book up - however, it is essential.
I had already been trying to compare the internet to the printing press and invention of writing, but this absolutely nails it.
TL;DR - WAY too soon to tell; we still have agency in this.
I had already been trying to compare the internet to the printing press and invention of writing, but this absolutely nails it.
TL;DR - WAY too soon to tell; we still have agency in this.
February 5, 2026 at 8:11 AM
I'm almost boring MYSELF by constantly bringing this book up - however, it is essential.
I had already been trying to compare the internet to the printing press and invention of writing, but this absolutely nails it.
TL;DR - WAY too soon to tell; we still have agency in this.
I had already been trying to compare the internet to the printing press and invention of writing, but this absolutely nails it.
TL;DR - WAY too soon to tell; we still have agency in this.
So.... hear me out.... the Brexit vote was actually the moment we became truly European.
February 5, 2026 at 7:56 AM
So.... hear me out.... the Brexit vote was actually the moment we became truly European.
February 4, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Warm potato tortilla, avocado, rocket, mint, coriander, spicy red pepper paste, chilli pickled garlic cloves, tomatoes, pickled onions, callaloo corner papaya and carrot hot sauce, crushed chipotle and lime corn chips, and just a tremendous feeling of wellbeing #wrapgame #lfg #spicyboi
February 4, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Peter and Simon are the same name.
And as for these two fuckers....
And as for these two fuckers....
February 3, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Peter and Simon are the same name.
And as for these two fuckers....
And as for these two fuckers....
I mean if I was Tulsi Gabbard and I'd done treason, I'd be stonewalling too fwiw.
February 2, 2026 at 5:20 PM
I mean if I was Tulsi Gabbard and I'd done treason, I'd be stonewalling too fwiw.
I can't tell you how privileged I feel to have had this conversation.
![People who don't play the stardom game as such, but are more creatively profligate, tend to create a longer and possibly more satistying narrative in the end.
AW: Yes. Rock 'n' roll in the sense most people think of it is about the moment, impact in the moment, which means everyone's constantly in a hurry. But if you're in the artistic margins, you haven't got the deadlines - admittedly you haven't got the huge budget either - so you can let your story unfold over a much longer length of time. If they've just been on tour for a year, that band might have a story to tell, but musically there's not much chance for any kind of prolonged development.
So commercial pressure can lead to a shorter narrative, yes. Not that there's anything wrong with a short narrative, I like a short story as much as a novel. But it's just not in my nature. I'm the king of procrastination according to Lee Brackstone [his friend, publisher and collaborator at Faber books, name-checked in the WRF track "Brackstone Abroad"]. Deadlines are an anathema, sir. But people have cottoned on to that, so they know that if they give me a deadline about a month before the actual deadline, they'll get it before the deadline.
NW: I quite like a deadline!
Duke Ellington said, "I don't need inspiration, I need deadlines."
AW: I need both! I need a lengthy time for events of inspiration of many sorts, then a short deadline.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:amj4ofqfh4rheeic5qrtgo6c/bafkreieiqiufyuqzmeosydnhq4c3x3gs7ble4i3h5ayhmxu7hhindezbza@jpeg)
February 1, 2026 at 10:55 PM
I can't tell you how privileged I feel to have had this conversation.
Been thinking about weatherall a lot this week for reasons and went back to this and can't believe I didn't spot sooner how precisely it's the measure of the man.
February 1, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Been thinking about weatherall a lot this week for reasons and went back to this and can't believe I didn't spot sooner how precisely it's the measure of the man.
I enjoyed these this week
![Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610 by Claudio Monteverdi • Chet Baker Sings by Chet Baker •
Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase? by The Soft Pink Truth • [02/06/26] Butterfly by Daphni • Tectonic Particles by Kayla Painter • No More Drama by Mary J. Blige • Can Such Delightful Times Go On Forever? by Drew Daniel • The Impulse Story by Albert Ayler • Wátina by The Garifuna Collective • The Time Has Come 1967-1973 by The Pentangle • Umalali by Umalali • Time Tourist by B12 • Waltz For Debby (Original Jazz Classics Remaster 2010) by Bill Evans Trio • Colourform by The Higher Intelligence Agency • One-Trick Pony by Paul Simon • Remain in Light by Talking Heads • 21st Century Soul by As One • Satie: Oeuvres pour piano by Erik Satie • On The Wing by Yoshika Colwell • Full Serpent by Dialect • Super Ape Returns to Conquer by Subatomic Sound System • Over a God / Centre by Lake Turner • Totality by Natural Information Society • Who We Are, Becoming by Rebecca Vasmant• Ready To Live A Lie (The Remixes) by Sally Shapiro](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:amj4ofqfh4rheeic5qrtgo6c/bafkreihh5pveurdqihxpyidqwv6jtptbqljc3cs42az6bhvj22znpnjphi@jpeg)
February 1, 2026 at 10:38 PM
I enjoyed these this week
not interested in getting into a row or inviting pile-ons - but when did this kind of ableism become OK on the left? this is someone who's followed by a lot of big BSky names
this kind of language was bandied about round Biden's infirmity too
was fucking bullshit then and it's fucking bullshit now
this kind of language was bandied about round Biden's infirmity too
was fucking bullshit then and it's fucking bullshit now
February 1, 2026 at 5:28 PM
not interested in getting into a row or inviting pile-ons - but when did this kind of ableism become OK on the left? this is someone who's followed by a lot of big BSky names
this kind of language was bandied about round Biden's infirmity too
was fucking bullshit then and it's fucking bullshit now
this kind of language was bandied about round Biden's infirmity too
was fucking bullshit then and it's fucking bullshit now
huh, then again....
January 30, 2026 at 6:35 PM
huh, then again....
ha I'm ambivalent at best about blocklists as a general thing, however THIS one has never failed me yet
January 30, 2026 at 8:54 AM
ha I'm ambivalent at best about blocklists as a general thing, however THIS one has never failed me yet
OK I will never stan a politician. I think it's a bad idea.
However: to be the only person other than Neu!, Underground Resistance, and FELA KUTI to have Carhartt dedicate clothing to is.... is.....
Iit's cool, right? That's a cool thing.
However: to be the only person other than Neu!, Underground Resistance, and FELA KUTI to have Carhartt dedicate clothing to is.... is.....
Iit's cool, right? That's a cool thing.
January 29, 2026 at 6:27 PM
OK I will never stan a politician. I think it's a bad idea.
However: to be the only person other than Neu!, Underground Resistance, and FELA KUTI to have Carhartt dedicate clothing to is.... is.....
Iit's cool, right? That's a cool thing.
However: to be the only person other than Neu!, Underground Resistance, and FELA KUTI to have Carhartt dedicate clothing to is.... is.....
Iit's cool, right? That's a cool thing.
Sky check
January 28, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Sky check
Got the @gwennosaunders.bsky.social interview in the can, goodness me what stories and what insight. Can't wait to publish this.
January 27, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Got the @gwennosaunders.bsky.social interview in the can, goodness me what stories and what insight. Can't wait to publish this.
This was last year. I MEAN.
January 27, 2026 at 9:08 AM
This was last year. I MEAN.