Mitchell Stirling
@mitchellst.bsky.social
I work with data and tell stories about it. I also write about closing tracks on albums on Substack.
Can't help but think of the Radio X listener's poll.
Rob Frightcis@robertfrancis.co.uk · yesterdayOH DEAR FUCKING GOD...
That this bot, which posts random stills and clips from the thousands of hours of VHS transfers on archive.org, landed on *this specific frame* feels like finding the monkey at the typewriter that managed to write Hamlet.
VHS Vault@vhsvault.bsky.social · 6d agoFunland (VHS) : 4143s
Can you use Marc Lewisohn's Complete Beatles Recording Sessions as a sacred text when you swear in as an MP?
Veronica Lake charging VAT on a cake.
WerewolfbarmitzvAlex@skippingjack.bsky.social · last wk.More celebrities should do rhyming crimes
My nan refused to go on the E.T. ride at Universal in Florida, informing us quite strongly that she hated E.T.
katie dzwierzynski@kdzwierzynski.bsky.social · last wk.alright everyone, tell us which famous person your mom dislikes for indeterminate reasons
I used to call you on my cell phone therunoutgrooves.substack.com/p/i-used-to-... Drake, Live Aid and Simply bloody Red again.
I used to call you on my cell phone
Sade - ‘Why Can’t We Live Together’ (Diamond Life - 1984)
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A long-overdue update to my England goalscorers chart for 20+ goals: Harry Kane is now in the 90s. Every goal plotted against the opponent’s kick-off Elo, plus a breakdown of goals against sides rated above 1,900. Saka, Rashford and Beckham added too.
Less than a week to vote in the Run Out Grooves readers' poll: the best closing tracks of the 2000s. 200 albums on the long list - Pick up to ten, add honourable mentions, or write in the one we missed. Closes Monday 12 October, therunoutgrooves.substack.com/p/readers-poll-lets-all-meet-up-in
Kemi Badenoch has said that Edinburgh is the UK's 'second city' - a view shared by only 12% of Britons Instead the public split between 34% Manchester vs 30% Birmingham, with answers depending heavily on where people live yougov.com/en-gb/articl...
Our 2000s album-closers poll now runs a week longer, to Mon 12 Oct. It's tight at the top, and almost all tracks have been voted on. Still waiting: The Streets, Beck, Nas, Sleater-Kinney. Five minutes to vote: therunoutgrooves.substack.com/p/readers-poll-lets-all-meet-up-in
Can't believe Richard E Grant allowed that episode to go out.
One ballot this morning rescued Bowie, Tom Waits, Steely Dan and Common from zero in the 2000s album-closers poll. 172 of 200 tracks now have a vote. Still waiting: The Streets, Beck, Nas, Sleater-Kinney. Closes Mon 5 Oct therunoutgrooves.substack.com/p/readers-poll-lets-all-meet-up-in
If you are an opposition leader who could be doing better in the polls, what better way to move those polling numbers than to be on the wrong side of emerging public opinion.
Survation.@survation.bsky.social · 3w agoSupport outnumbers opposition in every age group, including those most affected: -> 55-64: 61% support, 16% oppose -> 65+: 55% support, 27% oppose 8/9
“Tap, tap, tap at the window. Bloody AI Greta Garbo, trying to sell me ball bearings.”
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3w agoReanimated AI Greta Garbo stars again … in a ball-bearing advert
It's tight at the top of the 2000s album-closers poll: Overnight ballots reshuffled the top three. 167 of 200 tracks now have votes, including Jay-Z. Still waiting: Bowie, The Streets, Beck, Nas, Tom Waits. Closes Mon 5 Oct therunoutgrooves.substack.com/p/readers-poll-lets-all-meet-up-in
A clear leader has emerged in the 2000s album-closers poll. 157 of 200 tracks now have a vote. Still waiting: Jay-Z, Bowie, The Streets, Beck, Nas, Tom Waits. And 2008 is still at the bottom of the years. Closes Mon 5 Oct therunoutgrooves.substack.com/p/readers-poll-lets-all-meet-up-in
Can the arts business model survive AI? Perhaps the best guide is to look at how the arts survived past tech revolutions Take music—internet piracy and then streaming killed the lucrative CD market, but musicians mostly saved their jobs by focusing much more on live concerts
If you claim to have never heard Crazy Frog’s “Axel F,” it says more about you than it does Mr. Frog. This about virtue signaling that you are better than entire genres of music, that your friends are not in the custom ringtone game.
*blackadder theme* His head is bigger than a fence He breathes, and everything gets warmer His urge to trample represents A nation's nuclear war trauma Godzilla! Godzilla! The scourge of beast and man! Godzilla! Godzilla! He's flattening Japan!
132 of the 200 closers in the 2000s poll now have a vote. Coldplay and Britney are off the mark. Still waiting: Jay-Z, Bowie, Dylan, The Streets, Interpol, Beck, Nas, Tom Waits. And 2008 is still the decade's least-loved year. therunoutgrooves.substack.com/p/readers-poll-lets-all-meet-up-in
Alberta’s self-image as world’s only rat-free region shattered by discovery of rat
Alberta’s self-image as world’s only rat-free region shattered by discovery of rat
Province’s rat patrol called in to investigate as town of Bowden announces discovery of dead vermin
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