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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 7h
One of the most genuinely informative "business books" (except it isn't a book) I've read - a classic example of creative project bloat and drift, nobody able to execute a plan or stick to a choice, except you could see the results on a monthly basis in real time
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 8h
Giles Martin announces his plans to improve the Beatles
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 9h
Looked up the UK charts for this week and, hey, it starts well www.officialcharts.com/charts/singl...
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Official Singles Chart on 23/9/2001
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 9h
Looking at research results for something called "Big Pot Naturals" and I am very disappointed that the packaging does not take the opportunities presented to it
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Kenny Meyers @kennym.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We just decided to add a TON of new bundles. 15% of Sweet's proceeds go to BINC to help bookstores because we looove themmm. It's gonna be a spammy couple of weeks but please know I got to move these comics, people! sweetshop.app/bundles
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Bundles
There’s a comic for everyone.
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 11h
There's a kind of story which is "let's poke at a structural feature of the premise" and it always makes me itch a bit - 'why does Gotham have so many weird crooks?' is a good example, no answer is going to be better than the meta answer 'it's fun to have Batman fight them'
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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 11h
i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 11h
This is why (if you're in the UK) you should shop in the Co-Op where you will hear decades of hits including the latest jams* *on a 9-12 month delay, we finally got "The Fate Of Ophelia"
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 12h
Is the cupboard really so bare that we have to do Batman social policy discourse?
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Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 12h
They should make a comic where Batman makes a real difference by posting online
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Chloe doesn't work very well @addamschloe.bsky.social · 17h
They destroyed this kind of beautiful place. And for what? Mister Beast.
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 18h
Those other titles! They’ve been mining the “grandad writes to the local paper” seam for a while apparently, no wonder they got to the horrible old bigot part
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jay @kuppermann.xyz · 29/09/2026
39, likewise, from the top of the US charts; more artist repeats even though i cut one taylor and one olivia song at the end to reduce repetition open.spotify.com/playlist/6gt...
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Good US #1s of the 2020s
Playlist · jay · 39 items
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ended up at 39 tracks! Also pretty good: Hate That I Made You Love Me, American Girls, Opalite, End Of Beginning, That's So True, Houdini, Too Sweet (he admit it!), BOTA, Starlight, abcdefu, Body, Drivers License (actually v good but I had enough Olivia), Sweet Melody, Rain On Me, Godzilla
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My dipping a toe into The Discourse has left me with renewed respect for the likes of @natalieweiner.bsky.social @countryuniverse.net et al who do the good work of covering good country music while documenting the tensions and complexities within the genre
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Judge Dredd maybe - the hero as instrument and ultimately enabler of an evil system
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I suspect there are more than this (stuff I couldn't immediately remember, I will expand it) but for people who have never heard any MODERN HIT POP MUSIC here are 27 songs that are UK Number 1s from this decade I think are good, plus the UK & US record breakers open.spotify.com/playlist/4B7...
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Good UK No 1s Of The 2020s
Playlist · freakytrigger · 29 items
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Calling whatever it was that did this job in my laptop a "bass speaker" is considerably overstating the case but I am missing it now it's apparently gone
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One interesting thing to me - as well as the indisputable fact that very popular things can also be culturally invisible to a lot of people, there's a general suspicion that popularity is fake now, from "50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong" to "50,000,000 Elvis Fans Must Be Bots"
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Very gingerly dipping a toe into the stagnant pond of The Discourse I think it’s obviously fine to not hear popular songs but my reaction to learning “a song I don’t know has broken loads of popularity records“ is “oh I should hear it, maybe I’ll like it”, why would it not be that?
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Very gingerly dipping a toe into the stagnant pond of The Discourse I think it’s obviously fine to not hear popular songs but my reaction to learning “a song I don’t know has broken loads of popularity records“ is “oh I should hear it, maybe I’ll like it”, why would it not be that?
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eminemerald fennell @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Can I just say how much I hate the Telegraph coverage of TLOAS: The Encore, which starts off doing the vapid "paternity testing" Taylor has asked her fans not to do any more and follows it up with this "shut up and be ornamental you dumb ho" stab. I think most fans of musicians want music from them!
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’m go off to play Civ 2 for a couple of days and people are being weird about poptimism again
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Tom Shapira @tomshaps.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Shadow of the Torturer
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
NEW POP POLL nominations - this one's going to be a banger
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Finally a leaflet talking about the real issues in the constituency
"Vote in Christian Values" - Saint Pancras was martyred age 14 by beheading
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Song I Inexplicably Know Every Lyric To (And Find Myself Singing In My Dreams At The Stone Door Of An Eldritch Ziggurat, Waking In Terror As I Finish And The Great Slab Begins To Move)
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Flum @flumcake.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I would argue that this means it’s actually quite explicable as to why Kimberly Wyatt from the Pussycat Dolls knows all the words to Icona Pop’s I Love It.
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Fun" is a big word but nothing has felt quite as much like being back on forums again as waking up each morning to decipher fragments of crashouts by new victims of poster's madness
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Mutable Joe @mutablejoe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
*whatsapp dads group chat* me: there's a list online phil: looking now jeff: what list me: best TV shows jeff: on it syed: done 3 opinions already me: I'm doing bluesky who's got threads phil: I did threads last time me: not doing threads syed: someone has to do threads jeff: fine I'll do threads
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In a few months I'm going to look at Clearsky and go "wait, who's he and why did I block him" and the answer will be "he phrased a post about coffee in an annoying way and you were in a bad mood"
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The guys from Big Cook Little Cook
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
TV list giving these vibes
Paul Gambaccini present The Top 100 Albums (1987)
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Peoples Pop Polls: BLACK POP 1986-1989 @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#BPHM8689 is IMMINENT (Saturday for noms) Here are the GUIDELINES including the BANLIST! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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BLACK POP HISTORY 1986-1989 GUIDELINES
BLACK POP HISTORY 1986-1989 GUIDELINES The next People’s Pop Poll will be happening in October-November on the @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social account and the theme is Black Pop History 1986-1989, to ...
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A warning about the supposed final Fall album that’s coming out soon: it is NOT a real Fall album, it’s just Mark E Smith rambling nonsense over music that has no connection to the vocal
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Found a site that lets me play CIV I online, goodbye rest of world
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It takes place on the one night of the year where Godzilla is allowed to have sex
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Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
also solid laugh for this guy. everyone on here is like "Twitter falsely manufactured the vibe shift!!!" "the media elites are all in a bubble!!" said the replies on fucking Bluesky

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Rob Tracinski
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What was really up with all that "vibe shift" stuff after the 2024 election? Like, what was the environment like, what was going on with members of the media that they bought this? I'm genuinely curious.
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Not the Guy
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real algonquin round table happening in the replies 
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The eerie sensation when a skeet spreads wide enough that you start getting dopperganger pfps in your notifications
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Mum I’m in the newspaper
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This became my Favourite Album for a while after it came out, still an all timer for me
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I feel like the role of assembly was less central or at least less a site for weirdness for my own kids - lots of stuff about “growth mindset”, though my younger child was made to sing “All Star” at a leavers assembly
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Two kids persuaded the head teacher that they’d “written a song” and he let them perform it in assembly. The song was a keyboard ‘funk’ preset with them repeating the words “electro chicken” in vocoder voices for five minutes.
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eminemerald fennell @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
THE UNPERIAL PHASE: 1) IMPOTENCE - work has no impact on its scene except as cautionary tale 2) PROHIBITION - existing badwill means NO direction is legal, even before work starts 3) MORTIFICATION - it has to be maximally visible, usually requiring commercial success and a persisting career
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It was like a memo went round all the labels in the years after Live Aid, fellas it's time to make an album that is not wholly embarrassing, make it good if you must but respectably boring is just fine by us, do you need Daniel Lanois' phone number, would that help?
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So happy the US gets to have this Discourse now too
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Fantagraphics Humble Bundle bringing the number of times I’ve bought the first Locas story up to (I think) five
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Of course the real fans only listen to Mystery To Me and Penguin
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Leigh Walton @leighwalton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Fascinating. Middle-aged men writing ragebait lyrics to piss off other middle-aged men and then hiring adorable teen girls to be the face of it and receive all the rage
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The Reynolds Girls - I'd Rather Jack - Official Video
YouTube video by PWL
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