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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 01/10/2026

Incredible birthday week dinner at Pick & Cheese with @margueritekenner.bsky.social ! So much cheese :)

Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 27/09/2026

This may be the first official cat pile. Twigs lost a fight this morning and he’s been sulking a bit. His little brother climbed up 10 minutes ago and they’ve been like this ever since. Twigs’ tail is a tiny bit twitchy but they’re both asleep

Twiglet the white deaf cat is fast asleep on a blue
Blanket. His smaller black tripod brother tortilla is sprawled across him. They both seem
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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 18/09/2026

#TheFullLid - 18th September - Happy weekend! This week, @adrijjy.bsky.social and I look at an odd beat in Lanterns The amazing @annabelhewitson.bsky.social is in the Spotlight,@tablecatgames.com has a bargain for you and @naomithinksit.bsky.social has the BEST playout mailchi.mp/51b3ed45ceb3...

A lantern symbol is written in the clouds above a deserted American small town Two men walk towards us, eyes locked on each other. To the left is John Stewart, tall and precise and wearing a blue jacket. To his left is Hal Jordan,a shorter, older white man. He's wearing a power ring glowing with green energy on one finger. Above them are the names AARON PIERRE and KYLE CHANDLER. Below that is the title DC STUDIOS: LANTERNS and below that are the words 'ARE YOU AFRAID?' with NEW SERIES: AUG 16-HBO MAX written at the bottom

An elegant, glowing white dragon stands across from a tiger in a daylit forest glade. They both look curious and playful.

A truck barrels along a deser highway. Above it a bride of Frankenstein, a vampire, a mummy, a werewolf and a ghjost, all wearing trucker attire, pose. Above them are the words MONSTER TRUCKERS-LONG HAUL INTO THE WORSTLANDS and SILVER BESTSELLER

A red headed, hoodie wearing kid goes all in on their French assignment, creating a legitimate club banger.

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 11/09/2026

#TheFullLid - 11th September - Happy weekend! We're back from #worldcon and here to tell you about our adventures. Friend of the Lid @adrijjy.bsky.social has their debut zine out! Takehiro Kishimoto carves fruit! Gramatik plays us out! And introducing Tortilla! mailchi.mp/89edbb8f4402...

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 01/09/2026

This is a Well Fashioned, a non alcoholic Old Fashioned made with angostura bitters, oranges, honey syrup and Ritual non alcoholic whiskey. Which I will Be picking a bottle of up I think

A Well Fsshioned, a non alcoholic Old Fashioned cocktail

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 01/09/2026

The log flume does not GIVE a fuck. This is after about 24 minutes. Our shoes no longer mostly squish. It was pretty great:)

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 31/08/2026

‘WE CAN’T STOP HERE! THIS IS BAT COUNTRY!’

Alasdair and Marguerite ride autonomous at Disneyland, on a hot sunny day and grinning like loons

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 29/08/2026

Signing at ACC now! @tkingfisher.com is my table mate and these are her fans!

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 25/08/2026

Just ate some surprisingly great pizza in a weirdly colossal and temporarily low population convention centre, ask me stuff if you want.

Alasdair, a shaved headed man in a blue tshirt

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 21/08/2026

#TheFullLid - 21st August - Happy weekend! We look at the glorious, and oddly reassuring micro-musical I'm Not The Main Character, the stunning art of Helena Mingowicz and Weird Al Yankovic plays us out and into the Worldcon break! mailchi.mp/efe47f3d1427...

Lillian, a friendly fish headed waitress and musician reads a magazine called BASSICS as the grill catches fire behind her.

James Kittens, a large melancholy cat sings karaoke on a dimly lit stage. The phrase 'IN EARNEST HOPE' is written beneath him

Two Renaissance style nudes recline in a paper towel painting

The Man, the Legend, Weird Al Yankovic, a white man with fantastic hair and a floral shirt, along with a large band, perform in the NPR Tiny Desk nook.K TO THE '70s is written at the bottom of the image and THEMES is written in the top right.

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 14/08/2026

#TheFullLid - 14th August - Happy weekend! School's in with Rez High from @brendonconnelly.bsky.social lly.bsky.social and @rustyquill.com yquill.com, our Featured Boost is @worldslair.bsky.social sky.social, we spotlight amazing statuary and Brendon picks our play out. mailchi.mp/695dd8573b61...

A purple and yellow ombre background with the words NEON INKWELL written above it. A series of faces are visible inside. To the right of are the words NEON INKWELL: REZ HIGH, EPISODE 1: OLD SCHOOL. In the centre is a polaroid photo of a school with the word LOADING and a progress bar over the top.

A colossal statue of Sendai Daikannon, a goddess in robes and a headdress, is illuminated against a cloudy sky, with some clouds at its feet. In the front of the image is a busy city street.

An ant-like creature next to three pieces of pop art. One is an exploding can, one is a figure in a gun sight, and the third is the sun behind clouds. SOUNDTRACK TO THE '70s is written at the bottom of the image and THEMES is written in the top right.

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 07/08/2026

#TheFullLid - 31st - Happy Friday! This week we're talking about the mechanisms of story, magic and the appreciation of both. We've got Bandcamp Friday recommendations, our friends at @rascal.news need some help and @countbinface.bsky.social plays us into the weekend. mailchi.mp/8f3ffbcab460...

Christopher Nolan, a white man in jeans and a dark brown suit jacket, sits on a stool on a wooden stage. The poster for his movie version of The Odyssey, showing the Trojan Horse in flames, is in the centre of the stage. Zhong Shu, a woman with bobbed dark hair in a dark suit, sits to his left.

A reflection of a duck swimming across a pond on a lightly cloudy duy.

The word RASCAL written in illuminated spray paint against a pink background#

Noted galactic warlord and professional fascist annoyer Count Binface serenades the voters of Clacton from the beach with a song that is legally distinct from National Express by The Divine Comedy. The words CLACTON EXPRESS are in the top left of the image.

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 31/07/2026

#TheFullLid - 31st - Happy Friday! This week, The Rolling Stones problem, #mastersoftheuniverse, @cloudyappleart.bsky.social 's sister could use a hand, Connie Kang's incredible personifications of San Francisco and Gavin Brivik plays #thepitt, and us, into the weekend. mailchi.mp/cc3a95c142c1...

The poster for Masters of the Unvese shows the villains, led by the skeletal Skeletor and his white haired magician sidekick/controller Evil-Lynn with the heroes arranged above them including Cringer, a large green tiger, Man-At-Arms, an armoured soldier, Teela his red-headed warrior daughter, King Randor the bearded leader of Eternia, Roboto, an enormous red and blue battle droid and the falcon robed Sorceress. In the middle of them, He-Man stands, An enormously muscled blonde man holding the Sword of Power. The tag line is LEGENDS AREN'T BORN, THEY'RE FORGED and the title MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE is at the bottom of the image.

Text reading FIRED WHILE BEING DISABLED AND WAITING FOR SURGERY. 'Donate to Fired while being disabled and waiting for surgery organized by Andrew Mercator-Ellis. Hi my name is V and I'm a registered veterinary nurse...'

A woman in an elaborate white gown with tall hair leans over, listening to nother woman who is sitting down talking animatedly and pointing off the image. The seated woman has a green plaid waistcoat over a white blouse, a hat of the same design and trousers with black boots. A movie camera is to her left and she has a script in her lap. A photo of the Transamerica Pyramid and Columbus Tower, a tall white conical skyscraper and a small green tenement is in the top right hand of the image.

Noah Wyle as Doctor Michael 'Robby' Robinovitch, a very tired man with a beard who will do almost anything to avoid therapy, stares at use form behind lettering reading MUSIC FROM THE ORIGINAL SERIES: SEASON 2, HBO MAX ORIGINAL: THE PITT, MUSIC BY GAVIN BRIVIK.

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 24/07/2026

#TheFullLid - 24th July - Happy Friday! This week,Sam Neill, @mattfnwallace.bsky.social and @brandxjon.bsky.social 's Leaving Jackson Colorado and what they have in common. Featured boosts are @thedailytism.com 'and Black Armada's new projects and Emei plays us out. mailchi.mp/02edb0241a93...

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 13/07/2026

Hey @dimension20.dropout.tv ? If the Purpee coterie needs a Bournemouth offshoot, I’ve got a candidate for you.

A deconsecrated church in Bournemouth turned into a night club called Sanctuary

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 04/07/2026

Happy birthday! Please enjoy Twiglet in full repose:) he has multiple office beds and this is his favorite:)

Twiglet the white cat with pink toe beans reaches his front paws to the camera while lying upside down on an orange bed

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 03/07/2026

#TheFullLid -3rd July - Happy Friday! This week @brandtandstein.com introduce us to the Worst Man, the ALA tell us to read, Twiglet is adorable and @ibuiltthesky.bsky.social plays us into the weekend! mailchi.mp/59c2027ab412...

On top of a basically exploded wedding cake, Chris Kafka sits. He is a very large man with long ish scruffy black hair, stubble and a white shirt and purple tie and jacket. He's not wearing socks but is in leather loafers. It looks good. In his arms, leaning backwards and toasting us with an enormous shiteating grin is Rad Raleigh. Slender, red haired, red suited, black shirted, yellow tied and entirely without filter, Rad is clearly having a ball. Chris is not. Written over them on a wedding invite style title card is BRANDT & STEIN-WORST MAN

Miss Piggy in a super cute kicky denim skirt and blouse picks books from the top of a shelf as Kermit reads next to her.

Twiglet the white cat with pink ears sits neatly on a dark blue carpet, tail kinked, looking up at the camera.

A smiling be-suited man with red hair and a beard holds a hand up to a bird, which lands on it. He, the bird and the desk he's leaning against are all on fire. He doesn't care and neither should you. At the top is the title I BUILT THE SKY - PROMISE ME YOU'LL THRIVE.

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 26/06/2026

#TheFullLid - 26h June - Happy Friday! This week we're wandering the #backroomsmovie, meeting the cast of #worstman, boosting the #becksend crowd funder and playing out with the magnificent @monetxchange.bsky.social and some otter friends. mailchi.mp/5eae45a7eabd...

The poster for the backrooms shows Doctor Mary Kline, played by Renate Reinsve, bloodied and panicked, pressed up against a yellow wall.

An illustration of a Polaroid photo with the name “Francesca + Templeton” written at the bottom. The image is of an older white woman, wearing a yellow shirt and pearls, with her hair tied up at the back. She’s cooing indulgently at the angry Pomeranian she’s holding, that is snarling at the camera

Text reading THE CAST OF BECK'S END above a group of eight photos of the cast arranged in two lines of four. They include Becky Lindsay as Maya Cresswell, Karim Kronfli as Nicholas Hickman, Marta Da Silva as Sue Hickman, David Ault as the Reverend Warwick Pullman, Maryam Ali as Bailey Frakes, Dave Jones as Clifford Waite, Erika Sanderson as Tess Dunning and Pal Aron as Moeen Frakes

Magnificent drag artists Monét X Change and Trinity the Tuck honor the sea otter program at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 19/06/2026

#TheFullLid - 19th June - Happy Friday! This week we're looking at @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social and @dropout.tv 's comedy cadence, Ghanaian movie posters, boosting @strangehorizons.bsky.social and playing out with Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers. mailchi.mp/5a74c17f74d2...

Josh Johnson, wearing a black and gold brocaded jacket, juggles instruments above a banner reading JOSH JOHNSON-SYMPHONY-COMEDY SPECIAL MAY 22-HBO MAX

Prince sits on a purple motorbike wearing badass purple leathers and holding a gun. Above him in the sky a woman holds an assault rifle. The bike and Prince definitely happen in the original movie.

A female presenting figure throws a hammer, while on the other side of the image a group of grey buildings cluster under a dark sky

The band members perform the song while at a crowded flat party.

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 13/06/2026

This was a fun way to spend the afternoon:)

Four Italian style subway sandwich loaves dusted with herbs

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 01/06/2026

Homemwde naan and spicy tomato jam with cream cheese and bacon. The Dishoom bacon naan basically. So happy with this:)

A homemwde fluffy man stuffed with bacon. Cream cheese and tomato jam

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 01/06/2026

Notebook swap day! Putting is the Excalibur casino and Starfleet Academy, incoming ie @fenrisgames.com @cloudyappleart.bsky.social and a mysterious bunny!

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 29/05/2026

#TheFullLid - 29th May - Happy Friday! This week we're looking at @thenerdypriest.bsky.social 's great new book #thesheepdetectives and #herdling. We've got the Sinlaku RPG charity bundle, @bean525.bsky.social 's Star Trek Text Generator nd Ecca Vandal plays us out‬. mailchi.mp/0d4cb7bfd725...

The USS Cerritos, a light grey saucer shaped spacecraft with underslung warp engines and a yellow strip around the middle of it's saucer floats in space. A small square shuttlepod hurtles past. We see one of the red glowing engines under it and the title 'LUDICROUS SPEED!' in the top left corner.

A painting of Typhoon Sinlaku with blue, orange, white and green icons over the top.

Ecca Vandal sings and dances in a variety of rooms in an almost Backrooms-esque suburban house.

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 22/05/2026

A coastal cottage. A continental divide. A ticking clock. Centuries of ghosts. Ben and Lilly Duffy are about to make First Contact, as part of the The Sheridan Tapes: Anathema, crowdfunding now! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hom...

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 21/05/2026

Ben and Lilly Duffy are about to work their last haunting and it'll change their lives forever. 'First Contact', written by me, and part of the new Sheridan Tapes fundraiser! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hom...

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 20/05/2026

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 20/05/2026

The boundaries are thin at Niarbyl Bay. Ben and Lilly Duffy are about to cross them. 'First Contact' written by me and part of the new Sheridan Tapes season, crowdfunding now!

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 19/05/2026

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 18/05/2026

The Sheridan Tapes: Anathema is a horror anthology podcast crowdfunding now. I'm delighted to be writing 'First Contact', an episode focusing on two ghost hunters and the last thing they expected to find; a real ghost.

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 15/05/2026

#TheFullLid - 15th May - Happy Friday! This week we're aboard the Icaron with @worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social , spotlighting the game work of Friend of the Lid @rufflejax.bsky.social and Lika plays us into the weekend. mailchi.mp/05e5e1c6995f...

A vast cylindrical space station wrapped in enormous carapace like petals floats in space above a planet. Above the limb of the world the images of three people are visible. Lachesis 'Kiki' Davis is a black woman in her late 20s wearing dark coveralls and an orange turtleneck with her hair up. Next to her, Vera 'Fishcakes' Lam is an Asian teenager with gaunt features and an intense look, wearing grey with an orange harness. Next to them, Andrei Dulca is a heavyset white man in his 40s with long hair, which is partially white and a beard. He's wearing high tech glasses and a green uniform coat. Above them is the title FLIGHT OF THE ICARON

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 11/05/2026

My first job every week is to start building the last thing I send on Friday, my newsletter. The Full Lid is a weekly dose of pop culture enthusiasm and I love doing it. Want to get this week's issue? Sign up here:

Alasdair peeks out over the top of the image, with the words THE FULL LID written across his head against a backdrop of pens, coffee and film reels

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 10/05/2026

Hey @tincanaudio.co.uk ? As promised, weird dishwasher sounds!

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 10/05/2026

Twiglet is entirely concealed. There is no cat in this bag.

Twiglet the white cat with pink toe beans lies in an M and S bag full of waste paper. He is convinced he is invisible. He is not correct.

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 08/05/2026

#TheFullLid - 8th May - Happy Friday! This week we're looking at Artemis II, Star Trek and all of us through The Overview Effect! Our Spotlights are some of the best photos from the flight, our Featured Boost is @talesfeathers.bsky.social and @mc.frontalot.com plays us into the weekend.

Commander Reid Wiseman of Artemis II films the Earth slowly disappearing behind the Moon as the crew's spacecraft orbits.

A group of animals and travellers sit around a fire at night and warm themselves. The title TALES & FEATHERS is in the middle of the image with YEAR 5. YEA 5. PRINT. FUND SLICE OF LIFE FANTASY along the top and BACK ON KICKSTARTER UNTIL MAY 31 along the bottom.

Astronauts Christina Koch and Victor Glover sit on the recovery chopper that picked them up having splashed down after the first successful flyby of the Moon in fifty years. They're both waving, giving thumbs up and have the colossal shit-eating grins of people who just literally went where no one has gone before and got to come back

A heavily pixelated old school computer game shows MC Frontalot as a small green character holding a sword fighting his way through a dungeon, looting the monsters and slowly leveling up.

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 06/05/2026

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 01/05/2026

#TheFullLid - 17th April - Happy Friday! We're back with snapshot thoughts on #akira, #snluk and breaking the Big Guy Code. We've got Bandcamp Friday picks for you and details of the #thesheridantapes crowdfunder I'm writing for! mailchi.mp/97e63a5cdb02...

Ayoade Bamgboye, Paddy Young, Emma Sidi, Celeste Dring and Jack Shep lean on each other on the lower row of the photo. Above them, their castmates George Fouracres, Al Nash, Hammed Animashaun, Annabel Marlow, Larry Dean and Anna Maglano do the same

The word ANATHEMA, written in tense black letters on a white background

Fan art of Cammy White and Chun Li, two characters from the Street Fight series of video games. Cammy has long blond hair in pig tails, is wearing combat boots, a thigh holster, a green high collar leotard, red gloves and a red beret. Chun Li is wearing a knee length blue and white dress cut to the waist with a white sash. Her hair is in white spherical bunches and she has spiked wristlets. Both women are throwing high kicks, their legs colliding and throwing electric sparks. The words LIGHTNING KICK are written above that electricity and A WOMEN-LED STREET FIGHTER II ALBUM is written beneath it.

A bonfire at night as Katherine Priddy, a woman with dark hair, is on a steadicam, facing the lens, slowly orbits it.

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 30/04/2026

Twiglet endorses this behaviour. Unless he's got his plushie dumpling. In which case he endorses that.

Twiglet, the white cat with pink ears and toe beans, naps in a sunbeam with his plushie dumpling.

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 17/04/2026

#TheFullLid - 17th April - Happy Friday! We're looking at Welcome to Fosters by the amazing @imogenwrites.bsky.social on @rustyquill.com 's Neon Inkwell strand, the paper art of Hari and Deepti, @escapepod.org has a writer's call for you and Paul Kelly plays us out. mailchi.mp/898e22008027...

A forest clearing frames an image of a pond in an open wood. People are swimming and fishing in it while others watch. Golden light filters through the image from the back.

A background of a purple planet hanging in space with a moon in front of it and a nebula behind it. Stylised people icons stand in a crowd. The words DEMOCRATIC FUTURES are written over them. A friendly Escape Pod, circular with four yellow lights on top of it, hurtles past to the right.

A sepia-toned photo of a boy with dark hair holding a trumpet. Above him are the words SONGS FROM THE SOUTH 1985-2019 and the title PAUL KELLY'S GREATEST HITS

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 10/04/2026

#TheFullLid - 10th April - Happy Friday! We're skating through Hell with the extraordinary Skate Story, listening to the soundtrack by Blood Cultures as we go. Our boost is @anathemamagazine.bsky.social and we play you into the weekend with a skateboarding classic. mailchi.mp/797e5d769061...

On a field of warped stars, a glass skater stares at a brilliant white moon

Under deep red and blue light, the hooded and masked band members perform the song in urban environments.

A green and white candy striped background frames a photo of Han and Dean, two smilng white men in sweaters. The title reads SURF CITY: THE BEST OF JAN AND DEAN.

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 03/04/2026

#TheFullLid - 3rd April - Happy Friday! We're looking at the vengeful heroines of #theywillkillyou and #readyornot2, going to the arctic with @pseudopod.org, the pop culture jungle with Richard Wilkinson and to the weekend with a Warox remix of a rap classic. mailchi.mp/66b9e089c00e...

The poster for THEY WILL KILL YOU shows Asia, the main character played by Zazie Beetz. She's drenched in blood and drawing a samuai sword in front of her face. The faces of the immortal rich assholes hunting her so they can harvest her soul for the devil are reflected in the sword

A painting of an insect viewed from above which looks like Wile E. Coyote, an orange and brown coyote with a permanently affronted and surprised expression. Beneath it are the words CARNIVOROUS VULGARIS, Family: Insanusmelodiam.

The words WAROX HIP HOP written over a roiling blue and yellow electrical storm and the title JUMP AROUND REMIX.

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 28/03/2026

On the left, olive oil. In the pumpkin, olive oil, rock salt, garlic. Attemptint something like a tomato confit. On the right, salt, olive oil and Pizza the Action from condimaniacs. On the bottom, nothing 2-3 hours at 140c. Let’s go.

Baby tomatoes on a
Silver baking tray, with a small ceramic pumpkin tray in the middle.

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 27/03/2026

#TheFullLid - 27th March - Happy Friday! We're going to the Moon and back with Tom Hanks and The Moonwalkers, celebrating the space art of Alma Thomas, loving the first issue of @adventitiouswords.bsky.social and playing into the weekend with Anne Nikitin mailchi.mp/5d7e83bc6659...

A corner of The Lightrooms shows an image of an Apollo astronaut standing on the Moon. The image is on every surface and a man in dark trousers and a light t-shirt looks on, awestruck,

An orange background with a red circle. Two thirds of it are red, with a vertical yellow stripe defining the third section and orange beyond that. The paint is acrylic

Against a twilight forest background speckled with stars, a female violinist in a black and white dress plays. She has the head of a rabbit. The cover reads ADVENTITIOUS ISSUE 1-FEATURING NEW FICTION FROM PA CORNELL AND OTHERS

A high definition image of an Apollo astronaut on the moon on the edge of a crater. It's projected across all four visible surfaces of an enormous room with people standing and sitting looking up at the photo from the floor. The title THE MOONWALKERS and BY ANNE NIKITIN is written across the centre of the image.

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