James Kettle

“Genre: Art rock” sez Wikipedia. Yes, plenty of both.

Fuck me but Enter K is an absolute banger of an album. Remember it being good, stuck it on 20 minutes ago and it’s just non stop top drawer. #godsavethehamm

Going studs in on the AI industry for thinking creative labour is worthless would also be good, but if I held my breath for it I’d asphyxiate

I did but as I only said it in the News Quiz writers room there are only about five people who could have known about my incredible prescience and they weren’t listening. Still tell the wife about it regularly tho

Just want to know what happened to those who are invited - or NOT invited - to dine at The Captain’s Table

What a useful technology.

Motörhead ftw and the same.

You would be wearily unsurprised to find Nandy fucking creatives’ AI rights down the river in exchange for a pair of Premier League tickets.

The comic thing is how puny all the grift is. It all ends up being influence bought for a couple of grand and some hospitality. Such a bullshit country. Tinpot without a pot to piss in.

I assumed this was a term from political theory, to describe the window of consensus about the size one’s breasts should be

Always astounded to find people using LLMs uncritically as a search engine. It’s like thinking you can drink out of the toilet.

Why is Kinnock not in this shadow cabinet portrait

In these deeply uncertain times, it’s great to find inspiring words that one can live by, the sort of thing you’d like to see carved into marble in every public square, the sort of thing you’d like every school age child to be taught to recite

Alan Johnson is very good on this. Did a show with him years ago where he was talking about the 50s, and how people hark back to those times, but he was there and it was AWFUL.

At a guess, his tutor is “everyone on the Chart Music Podcast”

Absolutely right. Even for people who think they want one, they could get a gretsch instead which is like a Gibson but good (in the same way that people who think they like the stone roses should just listen to the byrds because it’s like a better version with all the crap bits missing)

Is the answer “any points”

No need to wake up on a Monday morning to this sort of cretinousness.

NO IT FUCKING ISNT ALL THE CREATIVES ARE FUCKING **BROKE**

My wife mentioned this to me last night, having only read a news story about it. The joy with which I could tell her that she had to watch the video right now, matched only by her joy moments later

This may be very old fashioned of me, but I was of the understanding that it was not sustainable to go around sacking Labour MPs not for any specific infraction, but simply because you don’t like the cut of their jib

Profile? Yes. On telly lots? Local but yes. Toughest choices? Ones that relate to traffic

Yeah. I’m in favour of them existing, but they are “being a politician on easy mode”

But as the victory margin was eight votes with a turnout of 22%, it also might not

We need a leader who is not afraid of making tough decisions for future gain at the expense of short term unpopularity. In a country of 68 million people, Andy Burnham would be my 68 millionth choice for this

Old Bill Shakespeare joins the ranks of all those of us who’ve at some point had a sniffy write up from Chortle

It occurs to me that the prospect of LLMs might have been the one thing that could have made Philip Larkin feel better about dying

But in my experience the implausible collective belief has been no worse than “this is actually a good project that will succeed”

I can certainly say that it is easy to find yourself believing something implausible if everyone on the set around you is also willing it to be true

I suppose the implications of what I’m saying here are that a lot of people involved with the film were kind of in a state of collective denial about it rather than being hoodwinked.