Favourite albums of 2025 1. Moving Mountains - Pruning Of The Lower Limbs 2. PUP - Who Will Look After The Dogs? 3. SUDS - Tell Me About Your Day Again 4. Totorro - Sofa So Good 5. Swimming - Old 6. Do It Later - Feeling Spent 7. Idlewild - Idlewild 8. We Lost The Sea - A Single Flower Close calls (it's been a good year for music): Ef - Give Me Beauty... Or Give Me Death! (20th Anniversary) La Dispute - No One Was Driving The Car Racing Mount Pleasant - Racing Mount Pleasant Pool Kids - Easier Said Than Done Saturdays At Your Place - These Things Happen Athletics - What Makes You Think This Is How It All Ends? Press Club - To All The Ones I Love Biffy Clyro - Futique Sam Fender - People Watching

Favourite albums of 2025

1. Moving Mountains - Pruning Of The Lower Limbs
2. PUP - Who Will Look After The Dogs?
3. SUDS - Tell Me About Your Day Again
4. Totorro - Sofa So Good
5. Swimming - Old
6. Do It Later - Feeling Spent
7. Idlewild - Idlewild
8. We Lost The Sea - A Single Flower

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17. Strange Jigsaws. Delightfully smile-inducing quirky puzzle game with some fun lateral thinking. Would highly recommend this one!

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16. Dispatch. Definitely fell foul of the Telltale issue of course-correcting some of your choices, but this was still so much fun to play and the quality of the visuals and the voice acting was incredible throughout.

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15. Tametsi. Nice little puzzle game for anyone who enjoyed messing about with minesweeper back in the day.

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14. Puzzle Quest: Immortal Edition. Most enjoyable tile-matching game since Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo .. until you get to the late-game battles. The way spell resistance works is a prime example of an unfun game mechanic and ramping up the difficulty by giving you loads of useless turns is shit.

The number of people willing to support a far-right rally, both in-person and from afar, is fucking depressing.

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13. The Outer Worlds. Bounced off this the first time round but wanted to finish it before #2 comes out. Fun combat and I enjoyed the cynicism of this cosy halfway house between Fallout and Bioshock.

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12. I Am Your Beast. Stylish and punchy (literally) Superhot-esque shooter with a great narrative and some great voice acting. Really enjoyed this.

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11. Thank Goodness You're Here! Amusing, well done and nicely short, although a little samey.

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10. Avowed. Plot was interesting, characters were decent, combat and exploration were really fun. Especially liked the way that magic worked in combat. Only downsides were the loot & crafting system was pretty underwhelming and progression slowed towards the end. Overall an enjoyable experience.

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9 Wheel World. Really nice surprise. Went in with no expectations and found a nice chilled racing game with a perfectly pitched difficulty level. Great music and visuals as well. Would recommend.

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8. Pilgrims. Really short puzzley point & click. Great art style and quite an enjoyable palate-cleanser of a game.

A collage of album covers: Cloud Nothings - The Black Hole Understands, Touché Amoré - Spiral In A Straight Line, Do It Later - Feeling Spent, Moving Mountains - Pruning of the Lower Limbs, Carly Cosgrove - The Cleanest of Houses Are Empty, Press Club - To All The Ones That I Love

#BandcampFriday

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7. Doom: The Dark Ages. Didn't get on with Doom Eternal but loved this. Probably the most fun FPS I've played since Bulletstorm. Some great mechanics for the shield and one of the best maps I've ever seen in a game. Two thumbs up.

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6. Crime Scene Cleaner. Really enjoyable Powerwash Sim clone. Nice bit of narrative in there, although a poor ending.

Skeletons are slight, by Lonely Robot 4 track album

A mini compilation of songs written for @fawmchallenge.bsky.social 2021-2025 🚗🐈🧭💧🦴

lonelyrobot.bandcamp.com/album/skelet...

Gutted to hear that @thewheeloftime.bsky.social has been cancelled. Season 3 was genuinely incredible and had me really excited for what's coming next. Hope someone else steps in to #SaveWOT but that's more hope than expectation.

Worth bearing in mind they've had semi finals the last few days. My son's obsessed with it so we've seen pretty much all the songs already 😅

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5. Atomfall. Thank fallout you're here. Enjoyable, but I was more than done with it by the end.

There needs to be an agreement across all broadcasters that Rio Ferdinand gets barred from all commentary gigs

Except the baller league, he belongs there

Being chronically ill means living a life of constant upheaval.

You can do everything “right” & your body still rebels.

It’s why we have to cancel plans & say no to things we really want to do

We aren’t lazy. We don’t dislike you. We’re trying to manage our energy while our body works against us.

The s3 finale of @thewheeloftime.bsky.social was superb! Fingers crossed for a s4 greenlight!
#TheWheelOfTime

Carly Cosgrove (LIVE) - Ukie Club (SOLD OUT) YouTube video by Santo Donia

Really looking forward to seeing this band live!

youtu.be/ifStVtrG-Mw

A year for every minute of Spurt's life. Impressive!

Hunger has no place off the pitch. ⚽️

And together, we can relegate hunger to history.

We're asking football clubs, fans, and players to help us end hunger in the UK. Sign for Trussell FC ⤵️
www.trussell.org.uk/support-us/f...

On the pitch, you need that hunger…

Why is he trying to block the sale?

Feeling Spent Do It Later · Album · 2025 · 10 songs

If you like punky/mathy stuff then give this a whirl 🤘

Chart showing the percentage of men and women of different ages who agree with all three statements: 1. Most women fail to appreciate fully all that men do for them 2. Women seek to gain power by getting control over men 3. Most women interpret innocent remarks or acts as being sexist The chart shows that around 5% of both men and women aged 18 agree with all three statements. Among men, this rises to around 15% among men in their 20s and 22% among 35-45 year olds, before falling back to around 12% among 55-65 year olds. Overall 16% of men and 5% of women agree with all three statements

Good news from the British Election Study: there's no sign of the reported uptick in sexism among young British men

Bad news: what's going on with middle aged men?

It's an adaptation of the books, but some online commenters have unrealistic expectations of a direct scene-by-scene recreation. I love the books and I'm really enjoying the series.