...and I didn't see Tyler Austin Harper, or the Atlantic or the NYT or any one of the aggrieved free-speech-is-absolute folk, or the ones speaking out about Cofnas having fuck all to say about those of us wondering how to teach histories of gender and medicine without mentioning abortion in 2022.

re-reading 'Shadow Ticket' after having been in a bit of a very low mood when I first read it on release, and approaching it with the Pynchon-obsessive's mixture of joy and paranoia (paran-joy-a) that it deserves

annual reminder that neo turf masters is the best game ever made

incidentally this would absolutely slap as a Stars of the Lid track title

Brian in Detroit@kanoki.net · 2w ago

These motherfuckers need Buddha

feeling reflective today, and have concluded that the funniest thing I said this year was claiming that some AI generated meatballs in the window of a local deli look like Pain Elementals from off of Doom

Ciani explains why, at eighty, in what she calls her last hurrah, she is saying yes: to the orchestra, to a collaboration with Actress, and to scoring John Wilson's documentary 'The History of Concrete'. We are so honored to have Suzanne Ciani on the podcast: podcast.thetonearm.com/suzanne-cian...

over the course of my life i've heard many many people say "it's too bad hitler didn't find success as an artist, maybe this could have all been avoided" and rowling really gives the lie to that

s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · 2mo ago

The fact that J.K. Rowling successfully bullied Amnesty International into taking down a report that accurately called out her attack on trans people, especially trans women, is so repulsive and such a display of the power of her money, and her choice to put her vast fortune behind persecution.

This is why it’s impossible to make a living as a musician and we all advise our kids not to get their hopes up. THE STATE OF THIS WORLD’S ATTITUDE TO THE FUCKING ARTS IS INSANE. FIND THE PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE AND HOOF THEM IN THE PLUMS, ASAP.

Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺@katherineschof8.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Music contributes 8 BILLION per year to the UK economy, and has been critically damaged by UK governmental neglect across the music ecosystem since 2010. Apparently that neglect will continue. Receipts via @ukmusic.bsky.social www.ukmusic.org/news/new-rep...

blinded by the forensics of it all

Jonn Elledge@jonnelledge.bsky.social · 2mo ago

feels quite telling of how Keir Starmer can't do politics that he gave an interview about his decision (sure) to quit, in which he said that decision was ultimately incredibly personal, and then couldn't expand on what that meant, he just repeated the same words. a man who simply cannot communicate

Keir Automata

Every time you order it, they should inexplicably have Cait Sith breaking down at an adjacent table

James Whitbrook@jwhitbrook.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Obsessed with the presentation on this Midgar-themed pizza from the new LA Square Enix cafe that just opened, complete with decorative hot dog mako reactors

The Onion didn't fuck around with this one, wow

People like Kane and many many others that do care about human art and the creative process have been a beacon of hope while trying to navigate making art in this current climate.

Having done a rewatch of Red Dwarf recently (it's very hit and miss), i can confidently say that a point and click adventure would be the ideal form for that show to take

Adam Riches@supernorn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A while back we had the wonderful opportunity to pitch a Red Dwarf adventure game directly to Doug Naylor himself. While the project didn't end up going ahead, we're now free to share some of the work we produced for the pitch!

The same week that saw the release of a new Boards of Canada album *also* saw the 10th anniversary of my debut album, on which I try shamelessly to *rip off* Boards of Canada (thank you @fragilex13.bsky.social for putting this out way back when!) bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/fake-r...

Fake Real Warm (bc013), by Mute Branches

9 track album

bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com

mom: but we already have the new boards of canada at home www.youtube.com/watch?v=46PX...

You Can't Touch Mormon Jesus

YouTube video by tanasinn

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can't believe this is almost 10 years old, genuinely still boils my piss every time I see this

Matt Holland Author Dot Com@gallaethamatt.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I see Helen Lewis is in the discourse again, so please enjoy one of the most annoying tweets ever made

Yohoho gender pirate time i guess yarr

Collie Cariad@colliecariad.bsky.social · 3mo ago

thank god i can still piss in the HL2 airboat

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live (im in a dentist waiting room) Deerhoof The Cure Radiohead St. Vincent Japanese Breakfast Eiko Ishibashi These New Puritans The Fall Rush Claire Rousay

Simon Briercliffe@simonbriercliffe.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live Pulp James Brown REM The Breeders Gregory Isaacs Tanya Donnelly The Hives Mark Lanegan Nick Cave James [more than once edition] Frank Black Mogwai Bruce Springsteen John Grant Pixies Four Tet Kristin Hersh Laura Mvula Erasure Low

The Labour government has just further emboldened the worst people on the planet to intimidate, harass and threaten any woman they see in a toilet who doesn't meet their weird standards of femininity. The most transphobic government the UK has ever had.

gutted that Rolling Stone didn't put the Bad Religion prog rock album at the top spot of their best 100 punk albums list

That transphobia is a major aspect of the broader transnational reactionary far-right threat is something both trans folks and the reactionaries themselves grasp, it's just a handful of credulous centrists determined to pretend that it's not.

Natacha@natacha.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Trans people like me were warning 15 years ago that this would happen as a consequence of the rise in transphobia.

always funny when right wingers talk about not feeling safe in London anymore cause I just imagine them shrinking in fear and immediately shitting all over themselves at the dread eldritch sight of a Pret A Manger

hate to "hand it to the fkn Met", but this makes a welcome change to the WM Police basically just helping him to be a gigantic twat all around Stirchley

Marlowe_UK@irishdreamer.bsky.social · 4mo ago

So Ryan Bridge, the high pitch voiced racist has been immediately nicked at the Gammon Fest in london. Fantastic stuff.

a portrait of the artist as young sheldon

you've got to be some kind of a sick oddball to want to watch a "werner hurts hog" documentary

Been away from posting for a bit - during which time I covered a great early Joanna Newsom song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWax...

Peach Plum Pear (Joanna Newsom cover)

YouTube video by Mute Branches

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Here's that video of the entirety of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band done in a Final Fantasy VII soundfont you were looking for.

Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles (Final Fantasy VII Soundfont) FULL ALBUM

YouTube video by Seabass_Fiction

youtu.be

I forgot to share any of it on here so far (bc my mental health has been, quite frankly, in tatters this month tbf) but I have a YouTube playlist of my 26 (AND COUNTING!) songs for each day of January here: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

JAMuary 2026 - YouTube

guess who's back back again etc

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1000xResist is bloody good then eh