Miliband on manoeuvres...

I should have known better, mind, given how often I've teared up at Brickman tearing up on Lego Masters Australia - which, I genuinely believe, is one of the greatest TV shows of all time.

A page from a book on Lego building advice. There's a photo of a Lego build, comprising a small outdoor scene. There's a tree with pink flowers and a path leading up to it, with yellow flowers in the foreground. Beneath the tree is a small gravestone. The text alongside it reads "Without a character, this vignette tells the tale of a death and the blossoming of hope after sorrow is over"

Was looking at my 8yo's Lego book and happened upon this entry.

I mean, it's great advice - just wasn't expecting to be so moved by Brickman's Big Book of Better Builds.

The text reads: "Without a character, this vignette tells the tale of a death and the blossoming of hope after sorrow is over".

I'm 43... am I supposed to stop wearing t-shirts next year?

Ciaran Byrne: Ode to able Sail YouTube video by caltv

Oh, nice! Yeah, she's great. I'll check out the Aphex ones, don't think I've seen them yet.

I was reminded of this track earlier which I found years back, one of the most BOC-y things I've come across.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=786S...

Boards of Canada Tape 05 emergency reactionalysis YouTube video by ixi

If you're interested in going deep, YouTuber ixi has posted a reaction vid to the track.

I know these things are usually shite, but she's very good - knows her stuff and is genuinely insightful. She's done breakdowns of BoC's albums and loads of other artists too.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxLZ...

Thirty Great Half Man Half Biscuit Lyrics In honour of the band’s recently-announced summer gig in London (their first visit for almost three years), and the fact that I’d eerily been listening to a bunch of tracks with a view …

For more lyrical brilliance: www.sebpatrick.co.uk/blog/2011/03...

"Even men with steel hearts love to see a dog on the pitch."

BREAKING: We're taking the government to court over Palantir Peter Thiel's surveillance firm is embedded in the NHS. Wes Streeting won't show us the briefings - so we have launched a legal challenge.

BREAKING: We’re taking the government to court over Palantir.

The government is refusing to hand over important briefings given to Wes Streeting about the £330m NHS data contract with Peter Thiel’s surveillance firm

So we’re taking legal action.

democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-w...

Couldn't agree more.

It's so gorgeous. I've not been able to listen properly yet*, but the way it builds up reminds me a little bit of that awesome Sea Cathedral track at the end of Societas X Tape. Goosebumps.

* Blummin' kids' swimming lessons... life wasn't the same when Tomorrow's Harvest came out!

Tape 05 YouTube video by Boards of Canada

I did. BOC are a big deal for me, so I've been following it obsessively like a massive fanboi. Was gutted not to get a tape as I've bought a lot off Bleep, but I think it was probably a random lucky few.

I've just watched the full vid, the music is beautiful.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bgh...

IT'S HAPPENING! 🫨

Look I'm sorry they're not having bro

Seems it's been deleted for some reason - what was the gist? Am assuming it was Dr. Simon

A section of a Guardian article. It reads: “They will never have a nuclear weapon,” Trump told reporters moments after he received a DoorDash delivery of McDonalds from a woman to celebrate his tax bill, which removes levies from tips.

The dumbest timeline, exhibit #38257

... them as if they can be judged by the same standards as those of other political leaders."

Trump doesn't fit into the normal system. Rather than acknowledge this or adapt, the normal system has moved his way instead, or buried its head in the sand.

The causes and consequences of Trump’s defeat The Islamabad negotiations were supposed to conclude the Iran War in such a way that the US and Israel would have something to show for the thousands of lives lost and ruined, the vast quantities of o...

Bang on from @ldfreedman.bsky.social:

samf.substack.com/p/the-causes...

"When things are not going well he fills the gap with delusional statements about what is happening and what is to come. This drains credibility from his statements though the media still reports ...

Waistcoat Monkey Columnist

"Victor Orban's Defeat Shows That Ultimately, He Was Too Woke"

- Finty Bucklefast in tomorrow's Telegraph

i hope the white house sends vance to campaign for Reform in britain

a baby is crying while being held by a woman in a crowd . ALT: a baby is crying while being held by a woman in a crowd .

Orban concedes!

It's such a monumentally unfair system.

I support FGR - somehow we've been just about not shit enough to get into the playoffs, but we def don't deserve to go up. York and Rochdale both absolutely do, yet one might not.

Other than that, bloody love the NL. Don't want to be in it, but it's great.

Olson YouTube video by Boards of Canada - Topic

It sounds like a new Boards of Canada album is coming: stereogum.com/2495125

I am mega-mega-excited by this. I really want one of these VHSs they're sending out.

Anyway, here's Olson, which is beautiful and my favourite track of theirs.

youtu.be/6_lzNFjqGiw?...

Headline: EU to 'convey concerns' to US about Vance's Hungary intervention

That'll show 'em

A lot has bothered me about the reporting of the Kanye West banned. Firstly how it has been framed as all about it the Jewish community - but we should all be against Nazism! This country fought Nazis. Songs called Heil Hitler should not just be for the Jewish community to object to. And secondly…

That's a beautiful cover, kudos to the designer.

"We have done the lion's share of the preparation to ensure that the Strait will be open"

it ***WAS*** open, dickhead!

We were all so naive in the 2000s. Social media was never going to be a tool for democratic deliberation. It has been an unlimited,, unmediated broadcast tool for the most shameless among us.

Very good but very disturbing stuff. Things might get pretty hairy in 2-3 weeks' time...