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Spectacularly graceless, unpleasant and self-pitying piece. A+ exhibit.

This piece sums up why the Tories lost, and not just for the reasons the author intends. “The things I failed to vocally oppose ultimately led to my defeat, our internal culture is terrible- anyway, here are some unpleasant asides about the Lib Dems and Liz Truss.

this is a great post to cap and sum a really fun project, which i wish i’d engage with more than intermittently. even then it was great to watch and dip into at a distance.

A goodbye to the Pop Polls, which I spent a lot of the last four years doing, with some thoughts on music discovery and communities in the algorithmic age threaded in there too freakytrigger.co.uk/nylpm/2024/0...

A Big Thing Or A Smallfreakytrigger.co.uk I. PANDEMIC The People’s Pop Polls end this weekend after four years, three months, and something like 47 tournaments of almost 12,000 pop songs. They started in March 2020, a way of solving a ...

awwww dunty 🥺

Had to screenshot this earlier to troll a group chat

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It is weird that the useful life of Twitter basically spans the Cameron to Truss era, an entire cultural form that has been completely symbiotic with the Tories being in power

who translated this? f’ing hercule poirot? also didn’t emily teach music, charlotte english?

bouie v good in this. there’s a v funny bit where he says “the argument for [putting in a replacement not KH] is much weaker than it looks” subtext: and it looks really weak.

Don't be fooled by the bland headline, Jamelle absolutely bodies Bret Stephens in this conversation. A representative bit:

which is why i’ve been thinking for a while - probably safer to be drinking bottled water? i have no trust in the investment, infra or capability for thames water to provide safe drinking water.

Thames Water warns ageing assets pose ‘risk to public safety’on.ft.com Supplier to London and much of southern England says £19bn of assets are failing as Ofwat weighs approving hike in bills

hell of a kicker to this article on the uk cycle retail industry slump. halfords ok because *80%* of their revenue last year came out of motoring.

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One note of bathos in this election campaign is how many of the 'top comments' on Rishi Sunak's Facebook page are by the same person.

Leadbelly - Goodnight Ireneyoutu.be Leadbelly - Goodnight IreneTaken from: 16 Greatest Songs (As Pictured)Track no. 1Label: Route 16Year: 1990This CD is from my own collection.

many will already know this but Scavengers Reign (now finally available legit in the UK on Netflix) is amazing and there’s a nice review here, which captures the moral questions that “humans as aliens in an entirely differently evolved biosphere” raises. Just one dimension of this great series.

Scavengers Reignopen.substack.com Once again I am writing about something which I feel most of my readers will be aware, but in this case it’s a rare piece of popular art that I really liked so I want everyone to know about it. The Sc...

**new discovery** the wonderful amsterdam centraal bar. v good for a rainy wait for the brussels train.

hilversum chiefly famous for being the major media centre in the netherlands and was also where right wing pol pim fortuyn was shot in 2002. with the release of john ganz’s when the clock broke it feels like a time to remember and analyse precedents like this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pim_For...

Pim Fortuyn - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

i feel seen.

back on my bullshit* *traipsing thru the hinterland of light industrial estates to get to a v expensive restaurant i saw recommended on teh internet.

wandering down the silent back streets of hilversum singing the jingle from the Oranjeboom ad to myself at increasing volume.

big shout out to hilversum - the media centre of the netherlands, and as my mum pointed out present on the old radio dials - for doing a fantastic foodhall experience at Mout. “The only time you need to stand up is to go to the toilet” as my waiter said. my ceviche was really good!

no good to anyone but i still adore whoever it was said “Mitt Romney” sounds like a dog saying “it’s lovely”

the closest i can think of is romney in 08 and 12. mittens was saved from complete devastation by the nature of the system here but ultimately just kind of a doofus stepping on rakes constantly and everybody could see plainly why he lost to mccain the first go

i’ve got covid so i might be feverish but this made me break out into a fit of sustained uncontrollable giggles.

according to Wiener's biography, at the age of eight he was the subject of a magazine article entitled "America's Most Special Boy"

lambeth country show still has decent bits, but it really is “how can we rinse people for as much as possible. you can’t take alcohol in this year and when you’re in it’s all a brewdog/big brewer stitch up and stands selling paper plates of rubbish jerk chicken and rice and peas for £18.

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This is really good. 'Ultimately, pop is, like whiteness, a malleable, made-up thing used to determine who is in and who is out.' slate.com/culture/2024...

The Lesson Buried Beneath the Song of the Summerslate.com Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso” is one of several recent hits bringing back the genre that never got a name.

sevilla for a day out and to meet friends. a+ youtu.be/WY1bZjXKKWA?...

Sofia Kourtesis - 'La Perla' (Official Audio)youtu.be Taken from the EP 'Fresia Magdalena', released 19 March on Technicolour: https://sofiakourtesis.lnk.to/fresiaYoSubscribe: https://found.ee/nt-ysFollow Sofia ...

no deces de hablar de palestina. don’t stop talking about palestine.

and some holiday reading. no real idea what to make of this. a sort of medieval chronicle, a genesis of europe and french letters, a meditation on love and loss, fable and history. also a bit of a slog, tbh (it’s not v long so no idea why i’m making such heavy weather of it)

Cádiz market in the evening. One of my favourite places... on earth, I think.

the alito letter is extremely funny. when he lists the flags it’s like something out of evelyn waugh.

nothing like the sound of an ice cream van chime (yankee doodle dandy) bouncing off the suddenly appearing dark grey clouds above and ricocheting around the suddenly slightly chilly air. #summer #sunday

without question the finest exhibit at the good (but really poorly lit?) ashmolean exhibition Great Flemish Drawings is this, by an anonymous Netherlandish artist (?) titled “Earthworm”

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Absolutely. The reason why the BBC is doing things it absolutely shouldn’t is because it hasn’t had a good DG since 2012, because since then only two secretaries of state have been interested in it being well run and neither of them got to appoint a DG.

finally doing decent pasta. it’s not like it’s hard, but the gap between it and restaurant pasta had been v frustrating.