Mark J Wray @markjwray.com · 9hThe 1986 playlist got me wondering if 1986 was peak 'long song' but apparently it's a steady climb up to 1992 before it starts to drop off again. 100
Reposted by Mark J WrayBeefcake Dad @jeffsreturn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Googling Tony Blair Arms Deal to find out what the deal is with those arms 14897218
Reposted by Mark J WrayJohn-Luke Roberts @jlukeroberts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is hilarious. I am one of two people nominated for best host, and the other person is Louis Theroux. It's done by public vote. Vote for me! We can do this! 65526
Reposted by Mark J WrayJohnny Mains @johnnymains.co.uk · 28/09/2026Trish Keenan would have been 58 today. Everyone go listen to some Broadcast. 322157
Reposted by Mark J WrayPeoples Pop Polls: BLACK POP 1986-1989 @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This is still open - we officially have more nominators now than the 1982-1985 poll 🎉 0172
Reposted by Mark J WrayGaijin Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Swedish poster for the Harold Lloyd silent comedy classic SAFETY LAST (1923) 1318
Reposted by Mark J WrayPeoples Pop Polls: BLACK POP 1986-1989 @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social · 26/09/2026#BPHM8689 This is the NOMINATIONS THREAD for the BLACK POP HISTORY 1986-1989 poll next month! Pick four tracks from 86-89 in order of preference and if you pick one from each year pick a fifth too! Guidelines: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... 93259
Reposted by Mark J WrayPost SZN Nope @lesleynope.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The woman carrying the baby and food in the Giants game clip that went viral has written the full story of her marriage and what happened in the stands that night. If you’ve commented or shared any of the clips you also need to read and share her story themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...themomoftheyear.substack.comI’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night. 15432133
Reposted by Mark J WrayRobert Dallas Gray @robertdallasgray.com · 24/09/2026this is categorically the greatest podcast ever, nothing even gets near it, and part of the canon of historical music criticism. if you’re not already listening to it … good god do I envy the journey you could be about to go on 093
Reposted by Mark J WrayMark J Wray @markjwray.com · 23/09/2026Nevermind, the first album I every truly loved, turns 35 today. Here’s what I wrote about it a couple of years back. markjwray.com/2024/03/03/e...markjwray.comEvery Album I Love – 1. Nirvana : NevermindThe first in my series on every album I love, starts with the first album I every loved Nevermind by Nirvana 011
Mark J Wray @markjwray.com · 23/09/2026In one of our assemblies the head played us ‘Deep Deep Trouble’ by Bart & Homer Simpson to make sure we understood the important message about not getting in deep deep trouble 030
Mark J Wray @markjwray.com · 23/09/2026Nevermind, the first album I every truly loved, turns 35 today. Here’s what I wrote about it a couple of years back. markjwray.com/2024/03/03/e...markjwray.comEvery Album I Love – 1. Nirvana : NevermindThe first in my series on every album I love, starts with the first album I every loved Nevermind by Nirvana 011
Reposted by Mark J WrayO_RLLY band @o-rlly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026HUUUUUGE shout to Leeds Gig Guide leedsgigguide.com which dynamically scrapes both gig details from a variety of sites and artists' music from YT, BC, SC (NOT Spotify) so you can *listen to the flyer for a specific gig or venue* or check out new releases all in one place. V awesome indeed.leedsgigguide.comLeeds Gig Guide: what's on in Leeds this weekEvery gig in Leeds, checked by a person before it goes up. 022
Reposted by Mark J WrayNiko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 22/09/2026For my newsletter, Anxiety Shark, I wrote about my body being in pain, the body as a product of desire, and Wolf Like Me by TV On The Radio www.anxietyshark.ca/my-hearts-af...anxietyshark.caMy Hearts aflameMy body hurts, only it’s not my body. 410725
Mark J Wray @markjwray.com · 22/09/2026My top 5 albums the day I turned 18? Hole - Live Through This Kenickie - At The Club Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out Radiohead - OK Computer DJ Shadow - Entroducing My tastes were chasing rapidly, but this is at least pretty close. Possibly I heard S-K just after 18 rather than just before 140
Reposted by Mark J WrayMark J Wray @markjwray.com · 21/09/2026I somehow seem to have deleted any evidence this post ever existed from my blog. If any Wordpress experts have any ideas of how I might recover it, that would be much appreciated. 001
Mark J Wray @markjwray.com · 21/09/2026I somehow seem to have deleted any evidence this post ever existed from my blog. If any Wordpress experts have any ideas of how I might recover it, that would be much appreciated. 001
Mark J Wray @markjwray.com · 19/09/2026I was also extremely confused as to why this was the lead story on the Radio news this morning? Why exactly are we supposed to give a fuck what this prick thinks? 010
Mark J Wray @markjwray.com · 18/09/2026On its 25th anniversary I wrote about Tori Amos's Strange Little Girls, Jean Rhys and what it means to be a 'real man' markjwray.com/2026/09/18/e...markjwray.comEvery Album I Love : 12. Tori Amos – Strange Little GirlsThe 12th in my ‘Every Album I Love’ series, on ‘Strange Little Girls’ by Tori Amos and real men 020
Reposted by Mark J Wray✧ SkyMagpie ✧ (left my ❤︎ in Undermine) @skymagpie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I was worried if my comic is perhaps too self indulgent, but then I remembered the words of Björk and now I need to make it even more self indulgent 🥰 58114113870
Reposted by Mark J WrayPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026A Philadelphia family just bought their first home with a $10,000 first-time homebuyer grant funded by a group of Quakers It’s part of the congregation’s racial justice plan to redistribute wealth to Black residents in the Germantown area as a form of reparationsinquirer.comA Philly family bought their first home thanks to reparations from Quakers in GermantownGreen Street Friends Meeting, a Quaker congregation in Germantown, pledged to spend $50,000 a year for 10 years as part of its reparations work. It’s helping Black Philadelphians become homeowners. 223125302869
Reposted by Mark J WrayUna Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The Irish musician Aaron Rowe has said he is withdrawing as a support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour. 10597211993
Mark J Wray @markjwray.com · 14/09/2026Probably Bringing Up Baby (1938). There are earlier novels that I find funny in parts (eg Jane Austen) and bits of silent comedies, but that’s the oldest that genuinely has me in hysterics. HHG probably the oldest book I find very funny and it is barely older than me. 010
Mark J Wray @markjwray.com · 14/09/2026Agree with this, but also secretly pleased that my 12YO daughter is one of the ones who can and has enjoyed Hitchhiker's. 000
Reposted by Mark J WrayAthena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I've said it before and I'll keep saying it, I find fascinating that there has been no meaningful progress on reparations for chattel slavery when the legacy of this crime is all around us, every day. We're still walking around with your names lol 1637
Reposted by Mark J WrayDave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Just a reminder as the new academic year kicks off - the UK government has deliberately, ruthlessly, throttled the recruitment of international students, solely to pander to racists, and the resultant 25%+ fall in numbers can and will only accelerate some universities into bankruptcy. 8411171
Reposted by Mark J WrayBethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Looking over my contract for a skincare company: “This says emollients and I think you meant emoluments.” Them: “that’s no mistake, if you don’t like it here’s your E45” 37614
Reposted by Mark J WrayTweeets of Dogs Automated @tweeetsofdogsauto.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Best selfie ever 🐾 Original post 2527
Reposted by Mark J WrayReader of Banned Books @readerofbannedbook.bsky.social · 26/11/2024 14075482220391
Reposted by Mark J Wraypixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 11/09/202625 years since I asked William Basinski to copy some tapes for me and he ruined them. I’m still mad about it. 545473
Reposted by Mark J WrayBlue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026If AI destroys us at least we don’t have to hear about AI anymore 26313
Reposted by Mark J WrayAlex Winter @alexwinter.com · 08/09/2026RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period. 2315731118
Reposted by Mark J WraySam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026New PISA data out England is now top ten in all three areas (reading, maths, science) and the second highest performing country outside of east Asia (after Estonia). This is a huge public policy success. 451039254
Reposted by Mark J WrayMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026'The need to outsource services following redundancy programmes may be increasing universities’ costs rather than lowering them, as well as impacting staff productivity, a report warns.'timeshighereducation.comRestructuring ‘too often adding cost rather than removing it’Universities are ‘underestimating’ the challenges caused by outsourcing services amid major professional services staff redundancies, report warns 711667
Mark J Wray @markjwray.com · 07/09/2026Some thoughts on Manchester Psych Fest on Saturday. The presence of Angine De Poitrine kind of skewed the whole festival (through no fault of their own). They were booked just before they really exploded. Beta Band and Stereolab were the notional headliners, but Angine by far the most popular. 100
Reposted by Mark J WrayGail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 06/09/2026If you want me, I'll be over in my own shop gailmyerscough.co.uk 9457144
Reposted by Mark J Wrayjeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Name your price digital albums today: Awesome Tapes from Africa awesometapesfromafrica.bandcamp.com?mc_cid=1c36f... 1199
Mark J Wray @markjwray.com · 04/09/2026Stocking up on some Awesome Tapes from Africa stuff this Bandcamp Friday: awesometapesfromafrica.bandcamp.comawesometapesfromafrica.bandcamp.comAwesome Tapes From AfricaAwesome Tapes From Africa began as a blog in 2006 and has grown into a label that expands musicians careers and builds bridges. 010
Mark J Wray @markjwray.com · 03/09/2026Manchester Psych Fest on Saturday which is one of those festivals across multiple venues in a city, sometimes quite far apart. So as well as clashes I have to factor in actually getting from one place to another 110
Mark J Wray @markjwray.com · 03/09/2026There are good and bad things about my job, but being able to occasionally go look at a heron on my break is definitely one of the good things. 010
Mark J Wray @markjwray.com · 02/09/2026Latest musical diary, for August 2026, featuring Jimmy Eat World, Laura Veirs & 1996: markjwray.com/2026/09/02/m...markjwray.comMusical Diary – August 2026The music I’ve been listening to, and the other stuff that has been going on in my musical world in August 2026 000
Reposted by Mark J WrayRobert Dallas Gray @robertdallasgray.com · 01/09/2026the ol gramsci quote really hits sometimes. a new world is absolutely tangible and the only things in its way are the literal monsters that continue to profit from the old one 0115
Reposted by Mark J WraySumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 30/08/2026There were forty five thousand people there, about 80% women. Stars performed for free. $10 million raised from ticket sales, and Melinda Gates showed up to double it. 221464
