Mitchell Stirling

I tend to allow a sub 90 second coda with no (proper) lyrics or something like 'Her Majesty' but wouldn't allow 'Slide Away'. I am not writing a piece on Lot 105 at any point!

Yes, that was right up there at the start but got pushed down as we went on. A lot of grunge support fell into that with Pearl Jam nowhere really. One that would be easy to forget about when you are mentally checking things off.

1990s Closing Track Readers’ Poll Part 5: 25-7

1990s Closing Track Readers’ Poll open.substack.com/pub/therunou... We get into the top ten and have six slots left to roll out tomorrow.

"Oh no, my bed got hacked!" is a sentence you should never find yourself saying.

Man sent to France under 'one in, one out' scheme somehow returns to UK

Barney and Moe meme

What a weird name for a dog. But sorry for their loss.

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Day 22

29) Ezra Collective ft Yazmin Lacey- 'God Gave Me Feet For Dancing'
UK
18 Jun 2024

youtu.be/o830SdS7dzw?...

1990s Closing Track Readers’ Poll Part 4: 50-26

1990s Closing Track Readers’ Poll open.substack.com/pub/therunou... Into the top 50

Private Tutor - London, England, Oxfordshire - Tes Jobs Tutors International, United Kingdom

so, about that whole 'wealth tax' thing...

I struggle to believe this isn't a wind-up

www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy...

Not good enough. When policies are proposed which threaten people’s security and future on this country journalists need to do their homework properly and hold those proposing them to account.

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Day 21

30) black midi - 'John L'
UK
23 Mar 2021

youtu.be/GT0nSp8lUws?...

‘It’s all just wonderful’: minnows Mjällby win unlikely Swedish title for first time Mjällby, from a town with a population of under 1,400, beat IFK Gothenburg 2-0 to win the Allsvenskan for the first time

The magic of Mjällby

1990s Closing Track Readers’ Poll Part 3: 75-51

1990s Closing Track Readers’ Poll open.substack.com/pub/therunou... We countdown the next quarter with a genuinely terrible piece of AI slop for your amusement.

I'm sure the article goes on to point out the 70% increase in live games on Sky this season. Or that Sky's figures were down 10% last season on 23/24.

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Day 20

31) Olivia Rodrigo - 'get him back!'
USA
12 Sept 2023

youtu.be/ZsJ-BHohXRI?...

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Day 19

32) Taylor Swift- 'Anti-Hero'
USA
21 Oct 2022

youtu.be/b1kbLwvqugk?...

BBC News on 5 Live referring to Andrew made me laugh. Obviously Prince Andrew and Duke of York no good and can't call him Mr Windsor.

A tweet from Sky News reading 'Aston Villa fan Andrew Fox says he has received online abuse and even death threats following the decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from the match in Birmingham.' A follow up tweet says 'This is a correction of a previous post that incorrectly identified Mr Fox as Jewish'.

A page from the Henry Jackson Society website for Andrew Fox, Research Fellow, which says he joined HJS in 2014 and that 'Andrew specialises in Defence, the Middle East, and disinformation'.

Sky News is platforming a guy who says he's from a Jewish Aston Villa supporters group, but it turns out that the guy a) isn't Jewish, b) the group doesn't exist, and c) he works for the right wing Henry Jackson Society, whose website says he 'specialises in disinformation'. Well, quite.

Rangers need a manager.

Calgie @christiancalgie · 30m I wish to apologise to Zarah Sultana MP for my inappropriate response to a message on X. It was wrong of me to do so and I am sorry. Taking a break from X to prioritise my mental health.

A lot that could be said about this but if you look on Twitter it’s noticeable that the replies and quote tweets are *overwhelmingly* telling him he shouldn’t have apologised and even attacking him for doing so. That’s the feedback loop certain users are plugged into now, and it has consequences.

Norma Desmond and a Nottingham Forest corner flag are ready for their close-up.

Statement incoming from Forest.

I was howling with laughter at that and can only imagine what people who didn't get the reference thought of it. Odd I'm guessing.

Think we’ve crossed a pretty major threshold – and a very bad one – if a journalist working in the lobby for a major newspaper group can tweet like this without professional consequences.

This.

I think the strangest thing about this lot is they see what they feel is tacit agreement over immigration numbers as everyone agrees with me about everything. Imagine thinking millions upon millions of people currently saying they will vote Reform don't like curry or kebabs. Brain worms!

A *Conservative Party politician* calling 80s hooliganism “largely good natured fun” is absolutely fucking incredible

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe" Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

And some great banter rearranging the cafe furniture in Marseille 1998. Shame the organisers had to give their passports in this century completely coincidentally while these things stopped on their own.

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Day 18

33) Salut - 'Wildfires'
UK
19 Jun 2020

youtu.be/GRC4Ac6IB1w?...

If Robert Jenrick thinks the story of 1980s football hooliganism is ‘The police put a quick but firm end to it’, I’ve a big bag of magic beans that he’s gonna *love*