Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

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Little Earthquakes (1992)

@twistopherrobin.bsky.social · yesterday

#Art #StreetArt #HongKong

The artist formerly known as Emmy the Great talks books and beyond with fellow author-musician Kathryn Williams, and a little help from me 📚🤝

THE LINE of BEST FIT@thelineofbestfit.com · 3d ago

To mark the release of her memoir My Cantopop Nights, Emma-Lee Moss dives into the brave, new, and slightly muddled world of being an author-musician with Kathryn Williams

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Tori Amos - Falling Slowly - Boston MA 7/31/26

YouTube video by Carrie & Luke's Channel

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My contribution to this list is exactly what most people would expect from me and I am not in the slightest bit sorry 😘🐉 @undented.bsky.social

TND Staff Favorites of 2026 So Far

The writers dive into some of the best albums of the year so far as we do a little midyear check-in.

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Croatia and Bulgaria calling. I’ll be speaking, not singing. See you in Šibenik or Sofia? 👨🏻‍💻 huge ty to SHIP and SoAlive for the kind invitations 🤝

The Shopify douchebags - funders of True North and Juno News - think only rich people should get to vote. Do you still have the Shop app on your phone? Rectify that right away.

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brosaleigh@brosaleigh.bsky.social · 2w ago

Woaaahh Nelly

Technically I said ‘hej’ 🇸🇪 but the captions are a little off throughout. Thanks for having me, The Needle Drop 🤝 www.instagram.com/reel/DbMwoA0...

On Room Jhoom, Ali Sethi and Gregory Rogove draw on centuries of South Asian tradition to explore how longing can become a source of transformation, writes @neverdoneing.bsky.social

Ali Sethi & Gregory Rogove: "Longing is a pathway to transcendence. So is exile." | Interview

Ali Sethi and Gregory Rogove talk to Best Fit about Room Jhoom and exploring longing through centuries of South Asian culture.

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Ali Sethi’s new album with Gregory Rogove is a fascinating listen. Read all about Room Jhoom and how it joins the dots between exile, longing, Indian miniature paintings, singing in the birahini tradition, and the magic of repeating yourself 🌀

Ali Sethi & Gregory Rogove: "Longing is a pathway to transcendence. So is exile." | Interview

Ali Sethi and Gregory Rogove talk to Best Fit about Room Jhoom and exploring longing through centuries of South Asian culture.

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Writer's Creative Inspiration

ALT: Writer's Creative Inspiration

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The Anchoress aka Catherine Anne Davies@theanchoress.bsky.social · 3w ago

ICYMI, this is the first deep dive feature about the new album, written by the amazingly talented music journalist Alan Pedder. I hope you enjoy… www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/int...

Gender critical fascists are trying to SLAPP this out of existence. It would be a shame if it gets spread far and wide.

Sophie Molly@sophiemolly.co.uk · 3w ago

This list by Amnesty International is 100% accurate. The Gender Critical are terrified of it because it speaks the truth. Keep sharing it. Send it to your MPs. web.archive.org/web/20260709...

It took three very late nights to write this and I gave myself a stye, but loved the process anyhow. Come get super nerdy/analytical with me and @theanchoress.bsky.social 📚 As We Once Were is out August 7!

The Anchoress: “I used to think love was this wild, unsettling catastrophe of extreme emotions meant to make you feel bad.” | Interview

The Anchoress tells Best Fit how her new album As We Once Were deals in the past and how new meanings are revealed when we learn to look back differently.

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Took a look behind the themes of The Endless Dance with Beibei and Hannah and learned so much in the process 🌍🌏🌱🐯💃🏻💃🏻 @hannahpeel.bsky.social @thelineofbestfit.com

Hannah Peel and Beibei Wang: “It’s not a one-night stand and then bye-bye. What we’re doing musically is building up.” | Reference Points interview

Hannah Peel and Beibei Wang talk Best Fit through the key themes and inspirations behind The Endless Dance.

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In @thelineofbestfit.com, Iceland composer @olafurarnalds.bsky.social speaks to Steve Reich on the music that left a profound impact on his life and art, from Igor Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring" to Radiohead's “Everything in Its Right Place." www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/int...

Steve Reich's favourite songs | Interview with Ólafur Arnalds

In conversation with Ólafur Arnalds, the pioneer of minimal music Steve Reich talks through the music that left a mark on his life and work.

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Powerful piece. I hope the people it’s aimed at have the capacity for self-reflection

Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · last mo.

Now that the government’s persecution of trans people has gone beyond sports and medicine for teens, where are all the people who insisted they weren’t "anti-trans" but just had some “reasonable concerns"? www.readtpa.com/p/reasonable...

I spent an extraordinary couple of hours with Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen, the great Sámi singer and activist. This is her story (of combating racism, preserving language, belting out electro-pop floorfillers, and being regularly hauled off by the police): www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/int...

Ella Marie: "My message is to remember the enemy who got us here in the first place"

Ten years into her career, Sámi activist and pop star Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen tells Rick Burin why joy and militancy must arrive as one package.

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Some exciting news… but first we need a team More info on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/posts/seanin... & Insta www.instagram.com/p/DZj5RCgDlTY/ Please spread the word Apply here: thesounding.org/jobs

Ahead of her orchestral tour as part of Music Beyond Mainstream’s 25th anniversary this summer, Arooj Aftab talks @neverdoneing.bsky.social through the songs that have shaped her www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/int...

Arooj Aftab's favourite songs | Interview

Ahead of her orchestral tour this month, Arooj Aftab talks Best Fit through the songs that have shaped her.

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With her Some Place Simple album newly reissued, Martina Topley Bird talks @neverdoneing.bsky.social through the five songs she’s most proud of in her career

Martina Topley Bird's best songs, as chosen by her | Interview

With her Some Place Simple album newly reissued, Martina Topley Bird talks Best Fit through the five songs she’s most proud of in her career.

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I’m so furious about how stupid everything is

A billion gazillion super computers running AGI could never produce anything remotely like an Aldous Harding album. Happy release day to those who celebrate!

Train on the Island, by Aldous Harding

10 track album

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Loraine James releases Detached From The Rest Of You this week via Hyperdub, here she interviews collaborator Miho Hatori of Cibo Matto, before the tables are turned Peer Review: Loraine James Interviews Miho Hatori… and vice versa buff.ly/VX0KE3q

Feed: "The Needle Drop" By: Alan Pedder on Tuesday, April 21, 2026

New EU report finds that Spotify's algorithm is "erasing" artists from southeast Europe

"The system does not amplify local culture. It dilutes it. Every time. For every country," says advocacy group Music Equality.

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I fucking resent the idea that my life, as a disabled person, is considered a "cost", yet this bullshit is an "investment".

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4mo ago

Liz Kendall urges UK public to embrace AI as government makes first £500m fund investment

And when my hand touches myself I can finally rest my head And when they say take of his body I think I'll take from mine instead

Jonathan Edward Durham@thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 4mo ago

What’s your favorite Bible verse? (Wrong answers only)

Sonemic Interview: Marissa Nadler @marissanadler.bsky.social discusses her latest album 'New Radiations,' imaginary folk dreamworlds and cast of rich characters, and inspiration from Lucian Freud to Jim Jarmusch in this interview with Cal Cashin (@calcash.in). rateyourmusic.com/feature/sone...

Tori Amos and Neil Gaiman were best friends, and he’s mentioned by name in many of her songs. Tori was blindsided and devastated after allegations of Neil being a sexual predator came out. They’re no longer friends and she took him out of her song “Horses” last night: www.tiktok.com/@mrzebra1980...

Horses. Birmingham, England 2026. #ToriAmos #MusicEnthusiast

TikTok video by MrZebra1980

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I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I. I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

Takaichi’s Castle@discographette.online · 4mo ago

congratulations to the astronauts who get credit for a moon mission using rocket development work by trans women who had to quit their job and flee the state of florida and can’t celebrate this win with their coworkers