Matt Thrower

He was such a brilliant iconoclast when he hit the UK folk scene as a teenager. Just fearless. He's much more in for the trad stuff now but his first five albums are all magnificent.

This is why I like last FM, I've got a count to confirm my suppositions :)

(oh and that's Seth Lakeman down there in 11th - I meant to trim him off the screenshot, but I've seen him play both solo and with Robert Plant which was pretty amazing)

This is my all time top 10 most listened to on last FM. I've seen 5 of these live and have tickets to see a 6th.

Planxty are long gone, sadly. I think Aesop Rock is pretty unlikely. So I'm crossing fingers that we get a proper Radiohead tour and Underworld visit my neck of the woods

Some days I feel I'm getting pretty good at this cooking lark

We're now abandoning a hundred years of the fruits of cooperation and social justice and returning to the millennia-old concept of might is right, all because a few dumb fuck teenage boys couldn't get laid.

The only rule in MAGAland is that the orange toddler and his acolytes make all the rules, regardless of whether they're logical, or lawful, or just, even physically possible, and they can change any and all of those rules at a whim whenever they want.

Dealing with the reality that I might have to move myself and my family from this place to be safe. Who will take us? Who could want us?

For what it’s worth (nothing) I am an 11th-generation Anglo. My ancestor beat the Pilgrims here by 30 years.

In many ways, I am the problem. It’s fitting to go

I hate, hate, hate how we're forced to engage with this total, ridiculous, farcical nonsense because the people spouting it are pointing guns at everyone.

Ridiculously perfect joke.

On what island can you buy the cheapest coral in the world?

Tenner reef.

I'd told daughter that the less she knew about the film the better. Infuriatingly she used this information to intuit the twist.

You can't even tell people to avoid spoilers without giving spoilers anymore! 😔

Just watched The Sixth Sense for the first time in 25 years, with one of the kids. She guessed the ending.

But do you know what I noticed? The film has a surprising motif in common with Game of Thrones: they both feature Icy Dead People.

Having a prototype week, this is the wonderfully named Gal4Xeon from @jacksonpope.bsky.social - a roll & write with a real sense of interstellar exploration

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You may be right but I still can't fathom how on earth he can cling to that belief after 18 months of evidence suggesting the opposite

It's fun to psychoanalyse PMs & often you can be successful in board terms.

Blair had a rock-star complex.
Johnson had way more ambition than his tiny talents.

But I don't get Starmer at all. He just plods on, myopically, seemingly oblivious as to how he's repulsed almost every class of voter.

Oh did you subscribe? Site says 4th March so I presumed it wasn't in the shops as yet

There's a new Warhammer partworks series out soon. I think I have bought issue 1 of pretty much all of these and never painted a single model from them. But that's not going to stop me doing it again. hachette-collections.de/en-en/warham...

Look at this beauty! Francis Tresham's 1829, first and greatest of the 18XX railway games, first edition (third printing), from 1974. This is one of the 'proto-Euros', games that anticipate elements of the German game renaissance of the 1980s despite being released years, sometimes decades earlier.

That is lovely, especially for a game of that age!

I use Quorn mince. Cook it first by itself with a little oil else it won't brown. Set it aside.

Caramelise onions with some brown sugar. Late on, add some garlic and finely chopped sweet peppers. Later still the Quorn.

Sauce is mix of BBQ sauce, stock, ketchup, mustard in that order of quantity

I sometimes make vegetarian sloppy Joes and I'm ashamed to say that they're the only sandwich or sandwich-adjacent food that I eat with a knife and fork.

Sharing this not only for the fascinating literary introduction but also for "beef dry and granular as mortar in the temple of a forgotten god"

Because let me be very clear:

When men mock other men for standing against misogyny (or racism, or transphobia, or any other bigotry)

They are “punishing” you FOR SUCCEEDING AT MEETING THE STANDARDS OF MASCULINITY YOU ALL CLAIM TO HOLD

Good, if unpleasant, thinking

This would be easy for me except for the beers.

Designer is also the illustrator, and yes it looks fantastic.

Demons accumulate sin, which you can pay to summon the bigger demons and yes, they must be placed atop ordinary demon cards not empty spaces.