love bluesky because the replies to this post immediately descend into people fighting about whether the minions would have worked for stalin

been saying...

Just a lovely record. Absolute joy of a listen.

Me, a portly white man in glasses and a brown jumper, being interviewed by Alexis Ffrench, a black man in khakis, short sleeved white shirt and baseball cap, in a studio filled with keyboards, amplifiers and speakers. Caption "Did it inform so we say [should be "shall we say"] popular culture and could you give us some insights there? So..."

Alexis's hand playing the keys of a Minimoog keyboard, while my hand is reaching in from the right turning one of the filter knobs on it.

YOOOOOO I loved doing this with Alexis Ffrench, getting right down to the nuts and bolts of dubstep's appeal with a curious musician from a whole different world, including him hands-on working out what "the wobble" is from the ground up. shows.acast.com/abrsm-start-...

It looks sadly to me like both are succumbing to hyperbole. Benn should probably be clearer that the evidence on infrasound is circumstantial and fragmentary, but Austin crowing that he's exposed him as some chemtrail level whackdoodle certainly ain't it either.

What kind of bees give you milk?

Boo bees.

I suggested as much in the ‘Generations of Love’ piece - it was my Madeleine

How were you experiencing the music then? Because grime didn't really get to Carnival back then... Ugh. It couldn't. I saw what happened when "Pow" 1Z was out 2004. At Rampage 18 bottles would just fly when it came on. A girl at school said "Someone gun-fingered me in my nose!" You ducked... As much as I love grime you just couldn't have it, it would just cause havoc man, boys just don't know how to act, they still don't really. At the same when I first started making them beats, I would have been on the internet forums and stuff, listening to a lot of pirate radio. A lot of it I wouldn't have been able to get hold of it or obtain. So the big influence was radio sets, just listening and listening, a lot not even knowing what it was. Some records I was buying... You were like 13, 14... Yeah, I just used to rinse the radio and not know what it was. A lot of the crews, Roll Deep, East Code, West Wing, mainly that really there. Just not so much listening to one artist but more radio sets, DJ curating what was happening, South DJs, East DJs, West DJs. Getting a different view of London. When did you feel like you could participate? Did you start making connections with people, or start sending people beats? I was in a crew with Rick Clarke's son, Miles, and a few others. You were the DJ or...? We were both DJs, myself and him. He was producing before me, because we used to go to Rick's studio. We wasted so much time, we were one of the only crews to have our own studio and we didn't release a single record. We just used to meet up, argue,

Look I don't* like to go on about the ethos behind what we do, but this is what history is made of, right? If it's all the pivotal moments, the big theories, the Day Everything Changed, it's not how it was.

The texture of life is what matters. The little jokes, the tone of the story, all that.

*do

A skier was having a moment of forgetting if you were supposed to zig-zag, or if you were supposed to zag-zig. Eventually he passed a guy, stopped and said "excuse me mate, do skiers zig-zag or zag-zig?"

"Don't ask me mate," he said, "I'm a tobogganist"

"Oh in that case can I have 20 silk cut?"

Easy: iPad that can’t install social or comms apps

Read this if you are intrigued by the peptide craze.

Deep dives into his macabre oeuvre - which is peppered with references to death, remembrance, violence and bloody motifs - have led some to question if life was imitating art and vice versa.

It’s bleak af context to have to mention it in but stone me cultural criticism illiteracy is a rot that spreads.

It’s not just the literal illiteracy - it’s the fact that the moment a musician is mentioned suddenly it’s “deep dives“ and “peppered“.

I blame p4k.

“By stripping the right to asylum, nations are creating a growing underclass of placeless, rightless people to police in perpetuity, and an ever-greater policing apparatus with which to crack down on them—and, increasingly, everyone else.”

Absolutely essential reading on global borders and asylum.

lol all those two cunts are worried about is the Blue Labour gravy train running out of track tho

Do I need to add “THE BIRTH OF THE TECHBRO” to that or is it implicit?

I didn’t want to like this but…. 🏠😭

New PhD proposal:

DOUGLAS ADAMS, THE COLONIAL MALE EGO AND THE FAILINGS OF PSYCHIATRY

(I do NOT want to do a PhD but fucking hell i would smash this one out of the park)

It’s alright here but we need a lot more music people. I don’t want to badger him into it but dammit we need Scratcha.

Out of fairness, given that you have read all the studies, can you list your own summaries of them and where you agree and disagree with Austin's? That would be a great test of good faith and balance.

SPECIAL: Shy One revisited To celebrate Mali finally making 'Mali', an extended edit of her BMT chapter.

MORE HISTORY, MORE MUSIC, MORE STORIES - plus “Someone gun-fingered me in my nose!”

This is well worth your time, and the album 'Mali' even more so. So why not dive into both at once and get the full immersion experience?

reviewed this in the WIRE

used the words "FUN RA"

sickeningly pleased with myself

(it's a really great album)

you won't like him when he's angry. or, indeed, if you check polling, when he's not angry.

A skier was having a moment of forgetting if you were supposed to zig-zag, or if you were supposed to zag-zig. Eventually he passed a guy, stopped and said "excuse me mate, do skiers zig-zag or zag-zig?"

"Don't ask me mate," he said, "I'm a tobogganist"

"Oh in that case can I have 20 silk cut?"

haha no he's long gone, the OP was a joke

How were you experiencing the music then? Because grime didn't really get to Carnival back then... Ugh. It couldn't. I saw what happened when "Pow" 1Z was out 2004. At Rampage 18 bottles would just fly when it came on. A girl at school said "Someone gun-fingered me in my nose!" You ducked... As much as I love grime you just couldn't have it, it would just cause havoc man, boys just don't know how to act, they still don't really. At the same when I first started making them beats, I would have been on the internet forums and stuff, listening to a lot of pirate radio. A lot of it I wouldn't have been able to get hold of it or obtain. So the big influence was radio sets, just listening and listening, a lot not even knowing what it was. Some records I was buying... You were like 13, 14... Yeah, I just used to rinse the radio and not know what it was. A lot of the crews, Roll Deep, East Code, West Wing, mainly that really there. Just not so much listening to one artist but more radio sets, DJ curating what was happening, South DJs, East DJs, West DJs. Getting a different view of London. When did you feel like you could participate? Did you start making connections with people, or start sending people beats? I was in a crew with Rick Clarke's son, Miles, and a few others. You were the DJ or...? We were both DJs, myself and him. He was producing before me, because we used to go to Rick's studio. We wasted so much time, we were one of the only crews to have our own studio and we didn't release a single record. We just used to meet up, argue,

Look I don't* like to go on about the ethos behind what we do, but this is what history is made of, right? If it's all the pivotal moments, the big theories, the Day Everything Changed, it's not how it was.

The texture of life is what matters. The little jokes, the tone of the story, all that.

*do

Five minutes later: Ah well, nevertheless.

Not sure Peter Mandelson can survive this as ambassador

Genuinely, how are you supposed to teach law when decisions can be handed down without the legal reasoning behind it? You can teach about legal interpretations you disagree with but it’s hard to stretch nothing but “nah” into a whole class.

Smith and Huntsman approached Scott and grabbed his arms. Scott repeatedly pleaded “please” and “what are you doing” in a distressed voice, while Smith and Huntsman pulled him to the ground. At first, the officers held Scott’s arms at his sides while he was lying on his back. In this position, Scott screamed, struggled, and pled with the officers to leave him alone for over two minutes. The officers then eventually rolled Scott onto his stomach, repeatedly ordering Scott to “stop.” With Scott on his stomach and with his hands restrained behind his back, Huntsman put his bodyweight on Scott’s back and neck for about one to two minutes. At the same time Smith put his weight on Scott’s legs, restraining his lower body. Scott’s pleas turned increasingly incoherent and breathless as Huntsman applied his bodyweight. After handcuffing him, the officers attempted to roll Scott on his side, as he continued to incoherently cry out that he wanted to be left alone. When they rolled Scott over, his face was bloody from contact with the ground. Scott stopped yelling and thrashing around after a few minutes. Scott did not respond when Smith and Huntsman tried to wake or revive him. Shortly after, when the paramedics arrived, Scott was still unresponsive. Scott was pronounced dead after paramedics removed him from the scene. Plaintiffs’ expert found that Scott had died from restraint asphyxia.

One might hope that the Supreme Court's conservative supermajority would at least explain why it tossed out the lower court ruling against these officers, who seemingly murdered this man for no reason. Alas, we get nothing.

Here's that now-vacated ruling: cases.justia.com/federal/appe...

CERTIORARI -- SUMMARY DISPOSITION 24-1099 SMITH, KYLE, ET AL. V. SCOTT, ROCHELLE, ET AL. The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted. The judgment is vacated, and the case is remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for further consideration in light of Zorn v. Linton, 607 U. S. ___ (2026) (per curiam). Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan, and Justice Jackson would deny the petition for a writ of certiorari.

By a 6–3 vote, and with no opinion, the Supreme Court throws out a lower court decision denying qualified immunity who killed an unarmed, mentally ill man by using "bodyweight force" to restrain him. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...