Mitchell Stirling
@mitchellst.bsky.social
I work with data and tell stories about it. I also write about closing tracks on albums on Substack.
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Mitchell Stirling
@mitchellst.bsky.social
· Sep 30
Reader's Poll - Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1990-9
Have Your Say - Your best album closers of the 1990s
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Reader's Poll - Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1990-9
open.substack.com/pub/therunou...
Vote for your favourite 1990s closing track, please!
#90smusic
#MusicSky
#MusicChallenge
#all50rts
#AlbumClosers
#MusicPoll
open.substack.com/pub/therunou...
Vote for your favourite 1990s closing track, please!
#90smusic
#MusicSky
#MusicChallenge
#all50rts
#AlbumClosers
#MusicPoll
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"To hold in my hand a device that holds such storage. To know that owning a Haircut 100 back catalogue on such a scale was my choice. To know that the tiny pressure on my thumb, enough to move the click wheel, would change the song. Yes! I would do it! That power would set me up above the gods!"
December 11, 2025 at 9:43 AM
"To hold in my hand a device that holds such storage. To know that owning a Haircut 100 back catalogue on such a scale was my choice. To know that the tiny pressure on my thumb, enough to move the click wheel, would change the song. Yes! I would do it! That power would set me up above the gods!"
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Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.
December 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.
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what the FUCK
I watched it to the end and so I know literally what happened but I still do not know what is happening here
I watched it to the end and so I know literally what happened but I still do not know what is happening here
I can’t emphasize enough how much you need to watch this until the end
December 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
what the FUCK
I watched it to the end and so I know literally what happened but I still do not know what is happening here
I watched it to the end and so I know literally what happened but I still do not know what is happening here
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"STOP CRYING. We've come all this way to see Santa's corpse and all you do is cry."
The bones of Santa have been leaking liquid for 1,700 years.
December 9, 2025 at 12:48 PM
"STOP CRYING. We've come all this way to see Santa's corpse and all you do is cry."
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I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:53 AM
I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
Thoroughly enjoyable evening in Berlin seeing Radiohead.
December 8, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Thoroughly enjoyable evening in Berlin seeing Radiohead.
Elvis tackles poverty without delivering a sermon. open.substack.com/pub/therunou...
Well, the world turns
Elvis Presley - 'In The Ghetto' (From Elvis in Memphis, 1969)
open.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Elvis tackles poverty without delivering a sermon. open.substack.com/pub/therunou...
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Who has made this 🤣
December 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Who has made this 🤣
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A receipt to be kept.
Liz Truss live from Lettuce TV,
"We're going to look at the Trump revolution, and see how this can be achieved in Britain"
"We're going to look at the Trump revolution, and see how this can be achieved in Britain"
December 7, 2025 at 5:24 AM
A receipt to be kept.
Oh my god. I've just realised that we could have a Switzerland - Ukraine rematch at 0400 UK time in the last 32 @maxrushden.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Oh my god. I've just realised that we could have a Switzerland - Ukraine rematch at 0400 UK time in the last 32 @maxrushden.bsky.social
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Must resist temptation to build a Monte Carlo model for the World Cup before the play-offs.
December 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Must resist temptation to build a Monte Carlo model for the World Cup before the play-offs.
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I'm a late convert to test cricket but now absolutely love it.
I think it's one of the very few things in life comparable to a novel - with different acts, a specific setting, character arcs that rise and fall, the beginning may end up being nothing like the end
#Ashes2025
I think it's one of the very few things in life comparable to a novel - with different acts, a specific setting, character arcs that rise and fall, the beginning may end up being nothing like the end
#Ashes2025
December 4, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I'm a late convert to test cricket but now absolutely love it.
I think it's one of the very few things in life comparable to a novel - with different acts, a specific setting, character arcs that rise and fall, the beginning may end up being nothing like the end
#Ashes2025
I think it's one of the very few things in life comparable to a novel - with different acts, a specific setting, character arcs that rise and fall, the beginning may end up being nothing like the end
#Ashes2025
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This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.
December 4, 2025 at 3:08 AM
This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.
Amazing how many of the best Rock albums of the year, according to Pitchfork, were by Tilda Swinton.
December 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Amazing how many of the best Rock albums of the year, according to Pitchfork, were by Tilda Swinton.
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Spotify Wrapped Day is the time of the festive season that has something for everyone. Those who celebrate can show how impeccably curated their tastes are, those who don't celebrate can luxuriate in the self-righteousness of boycotting Spotify. It's a beautiful, inclusive thing.
December 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Spotify Wrapped Day is the time of the festive season that has something for everyone. Those who celebrate can show how impeccably curated their tastes are, those who don't celebrate can luxuriate in the self-righteousness of boycotting Spotify. It's a beautiful, inclusive thing.
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What I'm wearing to the Bluesky Christmas Party
December 2, 2025 at 10:29 PM
What I'm wearing to the Bluesky Christmas Party
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What I'm wearing to the Bluesky Christmas Party
December 2, 2025 at 10:26 PM
What I'm wearing to the Bluesky Christmas Party
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Received an email from a colleague, thought it was weird they had that strange ç in their name. Turned out there was a smudge on my screen and I didn't realise so I've been using it in emails to them for the past 2 year.
December 2, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Received an email from a colleague, thought it was weird they had that strange ç in their name. Turned out there was a smudge on my screen and I didn't realise so I've been using it in emails to them for the past 2 year.
More and more places like zoos, museums, etc., seem to offer annual passes for a minimal top-up on the cost of a single visit. I would not be surprised to see soft subscription models like this move into other parts of the leisure industry
Fundamentally - the idea that my family going bowling and then to a chain restaurant at a leisure park is going to cost £150 plus transport does still feel nuts.
December 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
More and more places like zoos, museums, etc., seem to offer annual passes for a minimal top-up on the cost of a single visit. I would not be surprised to see soft subscription models like this move into other parts of the leisure industry
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HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right
December 2, 2025 at 11:28 AM
HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right
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i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse
December 2, 2025 at 1:39 AM
i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse
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Adding alt text to this because this is fucking amazing and everyone deserves to read it.
December 2, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Adding alt text to this because this is fucking amazing and everyone deserves to read it.
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Robin Smith, former England cricketer, dies aged 62
Robin Smith, former England cricketer, dies aged 62
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Batter made more than 4,000 runs for England
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Smith spent more than 20 years at Hampshire
The former England cricketer Robin Smith has died at the age of 62.
Smith played 62 Tests and 71 one-day internationals for England between 1988 and 1996 and was a resolute middle-order bulwark for the side during often difficult times for the team. He particularly excelled against pace, making his highest Test score of 175 against the fearsome West Indies attack at Antigua in 1994. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Robin Smith, former England cricketer, dies aged 62