Mitchell Stirling

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I work with data and tell stories about it. I also write about closing tracks on albums on Substack.

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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 ...

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The James Timpson appointment really shows Starmer's political acumen. He's had the keys to Number 10 for less than 24 hours and boom - he's scored a free spare set.

I've ended up on LAB 466 CON 103 LIB 63 SNP 15 PC 3 REF 2 GRN 1 SPK 1 NI 18 public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...

Nowcast Election 2024public.flourish.studio A Flourish data visualization by Mitchell Stirling

Is it overkill to tweet every Tory MP that loses tomorrow?

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Looking forward to retweeting this thread when the exit poll drops

Banter outcome for Election. Reform win five seats, Tories four behind Lib Dems. Reform MPs say they will defect to Tories if Farage is installed as leader. Sunak stands down and Lib Dems win the by-election.

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Ordering a Tiny Hadron Collider from Temu

Feel very privileged to be able to see Lukaku have a goal disallowed by VAR in person.

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David Tennant should put out a statement simply saying “Don’t you think they look tired”.

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kemi badenoch taking on david tennant has big "piers morgan asking the hignfy audience if they like ian hislop" energy

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You know what used to create world-class talent? The post-war Keynesian consensus that saw properly funded art schools, regional theatres, and arts labs, and a reasonable social safety net that meant working class people could take risks and not starve or become homeless.

The absolute state of this.

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Christ as the Man of Sorrows, by The Master of Sankt Kathrein, 1475, 📸 by Boris Streubel

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the erasure of 20+ years of news stories here is yet another sign that future generations will have much richer knowledge of the 1930s than they will the GW Bush and Obama years. The wayback machine is carrying a lot of weight these days. If that goes, adios: variety.com/2024/digital...

MTV News Website Goes Dark, Archives Pulled Offlinevariety.com The website of the already-defunct MTV News has been fully pulled offline.

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Eight years to the day since David Cameron used a referendum on Europe to finally end the threat posed to the Tory party by Nigel Farage

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Kendrick Lamar teaches us that, in public debate, refuting your opponent's arguments point by point is less effective than identifying your opponent's single greatest weakness and maintaining message discipline.

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There's an interesting problem in digital preservation, which is that preservation only exists actively. Only the things you actively move to new formats, survives. Community is probably the same way: it has to be actively maintained in order to outlive whatever spot it's currently in.

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You know when someone opens a creaky old castle door in a cartoon and like a million bats fly out directly into their face? That’s what opening a Reach website feels like

Reach PLC have single-handedly killed local news media with their abysmal website, the clunkiest page on the entire internet.

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“it took me four years to realize they have been making fun of me the entire time”

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"Smells Like Teen Spirit" is closer to the Eisenhower administration than now.

Doing it right in Vienna.

@let5d0it.bsky.social listening to the playlist as I walk through Vienna. Waterloo and Radioactivity are sounding good.

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In Lib Dems elecions HQ, a campaign manager's phone buzzes. It's Ed Davey. The plan for tomorrow has changed.

Thorpe Park to reopen UK's tallest rollercoaster

Thorpe Park to reopen UK's tallest rollercoasterwww.bbc.com Hyperia will reopen on Wednesday after being closed for more than two weeks.

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NYT has comment sections for every Wordle and yesterday's Wordle was "MANGA"

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Lots of suggestions on Reddit for the Civ VII narrator, but, so far, my favorite suggestion is obviously Diane Morgan. Let Philomena Cunk blindly guide me through the centuries.

Mixture of OK and pointless aviation policies from LD. Hasn't been any airport expansion in SE/London for half a century, no rail capacity to absorb domestic air passengers - so they'll drive. Always intrigued by Whitehall's big log of annual flights per citizen as a real policy.

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The Times is free this weekend so I took a look around this morning. Why would I want to pay for op-eds that are all founded in a world view found only on the right wing of the Conservative party and rightwards?

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OH MY GOD.

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For a laugh, I once sexually pleasured my wife whilst wearing one of those masks with the phallic trunk from the game 'Dohnutters'

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[At the gay club] HIM: Dude what’s in your pocket? ME: I’m doing the handkerchief code thing. HIM: That’s a semaphore flag. Where did you even get this? [Meanwhile, at sea] SAILOR: Sir the merchant frigate has indicated it’s a bottom into blowjobs

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‘I NEED A POSTER OF RITA HAYWORTH’