Long live physical media! I recently reorganised my CDs and Vinyl and it made my stupid brain want to listen to #everyalbumIown in chronological order, so I figured I'd log them over on @popfeed.social. Sharing here, too, because the world would be better if we spent more time sharing what we love.

★★★½ review of Songs for Swingin’ Lovers! (1956) • Popfeed

Inherited this from my Dad, and my love of Frank is inherently wedded to my memories of him. This is Frank at his upbeat, swingin' best. Might not be his best album (with is In the Wee Small Hours), b...

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just had a horrific vision of the future in which Zack Polanski and Kemi Badenoch have a podcast and now I need a lie down

‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley

‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley

As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them

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Absolutely the fuck not

This weekend as a was working on my website I went through my CD collection and pulled a stack off the shelf, put them on my desk and blasted through it over the weekend, and it was immensely satisfying, far more so that sticking a playlist on to just rumble on in the background.

Celebrating the redesign of my entire website by watching Big Trouble in Little China

Jack Burton: It's All In The Reflexes

Alt: Jack Burton: It's All In The Reflexes

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🎵 Erosion / Avulsion (2024) ★★★★½ Good Goddamn this album keeps getting its claws deeper and deeper into me. Absolutely stunning piece of work View full review on @popfeed.social

A review of Erosion / Avulsion (2024)

Good Goddamn this album keeps getting its claws deeper and deeper into me. Absolutely stunning piece

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I started getting followed by some "film festivals" and "writing festivals" and thought "oh, these are cool!" Then I looked a little closer. They're all part of a network that preys on writers, charging us for reviews, and feeding our stuff into slop generators. So I made a list.👋🏻🖕🏻😠

Just putting it there: the last week has shown how Bluesky has grown into the most reliable, noise-, bot- and BS-free resource for anyone interested in football governance and politics. The coverage of Fifa's and Infantino's debacle has been fantastic. Size isn't everything.

You could say the same about any public service, or anything at all of public interest. The demands of capital owners trounce all other considerations, degrade the service and transform it into something with an entirely different purpose. UEFA's succinct critique of capital should be framed.

Neoliberalism in a nutshell. UEFA on FIFA's proposal: “The moment external investors acquire ownership interests ... football changes forever. Commercial return becomes a permanent obligation. ... Every decision is no longer driven by what best serves the game, but by what best serves shareholders.”

My wife has gone away for the weekend so I've decided to treat myself by.... redesigning my website.

Ozzy Osbourne: Rock and Roll!!

Alt: Ozzy Osbourne: Rock and Roll!!

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Standard Reader reads comics now. It works out which publications are comics on its own (based on the content and publication settings). They get a shelf of covers instead of a list of pages, and open in a full-screen reader that runs the whole publication as one continuous book.

“A bunch of short, sharp shockers, expertly and concisely written, all delving deep into our everyday fears and phobias.”—Paul Finch, bestselling author of The Island.

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Aliens: Sergeant Apone - Look Into My Eye

Alt: Aliens: Sergeant Apone - Look Into My Eye

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Tom B@butcherr666.bsky.social · 5d ago

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

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christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times

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Absolutely random-ass haul of cds from the charity shops and record shops of Dorset this week

So every day while I’ve been on holiday I’ve been taking an hour to write out a load of random thoughts I’ve been having over the last few months about my writing ‘career’ and now I have an epic new plan to try and execute over the next few months

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Alex Hunter got a brutal beta reader review at 11pm — "nothing happened, it's so boring, you've completely got this wrong." He took it as a compliment. He wasn't trying to repeat the same gory formula. Six indie publishers wanted the book anyway. danielwillcocks.com/thewritersch...

Best thing about having a crippling aversion to heights is that while the family go exploring some ruin atop a massive hill, I get to retire to a beer garden with a book

There is something enticing about the idea of this going to penalties and Messi missing one to put them out

If this match was designed to make Americans completely lose interest in football so they never have the World Cup again, I'm all for it

Cruise should have done his monologue from Magnolia.

Hearing the bbc crew pretend this isn’t the cringiest shit ever is making it even worse

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Just read the Burnham speech. Fuck me, that was pretty good.