Congrats, man

Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed The

Cowardly and fundamentally wrong. If you want to ban it, ban it for people who are allowed to vote too

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Guardian interviewer don’t spend a paragraph talking about the interviewee‘s pets challenge

Bizarrely that was the only episode of Tifo I've listened to this year (sorry)

Jon, Uncut Gems *is* one of the greatest films of all time

Niche request: does anyone know of a UK service that allows one to order documents bulk-printed with a dot matrix printer, with those holes in the side of the paper dot matrix used to have?

I have a feeling I'm going to be returning to this for at least a few months. They appear to be asking me to mail an entire suite of physical forms to Spain. For £65.

Is this worth £65? Probably not.

Love to spend hours filling in forms and trying to find out what a 'bank certificate' is in order to earn the right to invoice for work that I already did (before being told about any of the bullshit)

Oh shit, never even considered this. Undod

Ringing the doctor and forcing the receptionist to listen to a really long and patronising script before I'll tell her what I want

The cover of The Blood Brothers' ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn

Now listening

I did see Four Tet at Leeds Fest around the same time

Scratch that; I couldn't remember which one I went to but I went to the other, far less famous EITS gig at the Brude, without Four Tet. On the day of the Four Tet one ¡FR! were supporting the Subways in Manchester, LOL. (It was also my 21st birthday; what a way to celebrate.)

I remember enjoying it but I was probably really drunk

That Four Tet album is so good. Did you go to the Four Tet/EITS double-header at the Brude?

Insane second sentence

Do you have any more video game reviews?

Okay. What the fuck am I supposed to do. I'm supposed to do that?

Yeah, I agree

(I don't mean to come across as dismissive or callous here; I'm not saying she would lie about anything.)

I can't tell if any of is heightened for literary effect (it reads so well) but yeah, seems potentially quite dark at times

And everyone says that you're so fragile 😢

(Helen Dewitt)

Another side of the Windham-Campbell Prize told by an amazing writer paperpools.blogspot.com/2026/04/we-l...

*elements, not *the* elements

Would be fascinated to read a non-British/Irish take on Riley, actually; her stuff evokes the elements of the country so well

Tbf I haven’t read her second novel or the new one yet, maybe they’re terrible (they won’t be).

She’s the best living English novelist, imo, so if anyone (English) deserves it she does.