Everyone being 40 years younger

“Tony! You saved us all from … from doomsday!”
“You’d think, right?”
Dying look down the camera

National Theatre print on a wall in a stylish room

New in.
The National Theatre joins my Brutalist Collection.

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Throwing Muses - Counting Backwards - Electric Ballroom, London 27th May 2025 YouTube video by ElRat Designs

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@throwingmuses.bsky.social - Counting Backwards, London 27th May 2025

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The Pickwick Grease Monkeys - Grease [UK, Rock] (1978)

The Pickwick Grease Monkeys - Grease [UK, Rock] (1978)
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Think about this a lot.

ITV has announced 70 Up, the documentary following contributors every seven years, is to come to an end.

The director Michael Apted died in 2021. The Up film series has aired since 1964. Final episodes this year.

NEW EPISODE

NEW SERIES

#BrokenVeil

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Serious Art But Make It Sports vibe

AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think | Bruce Schneier Large language models aren’t trained on real-life conversations. As we encounter their language, it could affect our own

Oh:

A 2022 study found that children in households that used voice commands with tools like Siri and Alexa became curt when speaking with humans, often calling out “Hey, do X” and expecting obedience, especially from anyone whose voice resembled the default-female electronic voices.

You know what you can do to stand up to the rising tide of AI slop that’s consuming every creative job?

Support art made by humans. Like the fantastic Broken Veil.

At least, if there’s something not quite human in there, I’m not sure what it is.

Great stuff. The tone of nervously deciding whether to look at the scariness is just right.

Enjoy the discomfort.

Your Backpack Got Worse On Purpose In 1986, a corporation that made women's lingerie bought every backpack brand you've ever trusted.

Your Backpack Got Worse On Purpose. “From a shareholder’s perspective, the bag that falls apart is the better product. That’s the business model. Repeat failure, repeat purchase, repeat revenue. The quality decline isn’t a side effect. It’s the strategy.” [worseonpurpose.com]

Pretty confident this is exactly what was zooming round Coleridge’s opium-zonked head all that night

IT’S BACK. Joel and I take another deep dive into weirdness, this time beginning much closer to home…

Ready? Of course not. But it’s irresistible.

NEW SERIES / BROKEN VEIL II

Starts this week.

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Funnily enough, it’s a bit like a bunch of Monty Python fans whose joy in it keeps bursting out into re-enacting the skits

Sweet dreams all🩵🩷

I think I remember Herbie Flowers saying this was the shortest lived supergroup of all: they fell out in the Pebble Mill dressing room just before this debut appearance and that was that.

Pixies Gigantic meets the old Attack of the 50ft Woman poster. This took forever to draw, so please buy several prints.

Misread that as “Oss” and now I would like to hear Rihanna’s British folk album, starting with a banging Tam Lin

They should be called The Spoilers

Take a break from the horrors on the news with this.

Freaky and scary, sure, but it might persuade you there's some intelligent life out there.

I was going to say something about them and bands like New FADS being NME big bets, still looking for the next Smiths right up until 1990

Aligned in my mind with The Blue Aeroplanes as a good live indie band that didn’t survive the Madchester onslaught

No no, you definitely agreed to a swapsie of these five Panini stickers for your Grifter bike, my mate heard it as well. No backsies, besides I said it first, so it’s true. What? Are you calling me a liar then? etc. etc.

A Baltimore-based thread to explain one singular, overriding reason why American journalism is incapable of compassing and explaining the astonishing misrule and the implosion of all our governing norms. To wit:

A few decades ago, as a police reporter covering the Baltimore department, a new...

Bravo, exceptionally niche