Mitchell Stirling

Nevermind Eddie Howe, Man Utd should bring in Penny Crayon.

The Best Closing Tracks of the 2000s - Results therunoutgrooves.substack.com/p/the-best-c...

The Mercury Prize is tomorrow - likely to be won by an album or artist that doesn’t need the exposure. therunoutgrooves.substack.com/p/can-data-p...

Adam Summerton with the Haircut 100 joke there.

Fuck sake.

Can Data Pick a Mercury Winner? therunoutgrooves.substack.com/p/can-data-p... Spoiler. No

Can't help but think of the Radio X listener's poll.

We did it.

That this bot, which posts random stills and clips from the thousands of hours of VHS transfers on archive.org, landed on *this specific frame* feels like finding the monkey at the typewriter that managed to write Hamlet.

Can you use Marc Lewisohn's Complete Beatles Recording Sessions as a sacred text when you swear in as an MP?

Veronica Lake charging VAT on a cake.

My nan refused to go on the E.T. ride at Universal in Florida, informing us quite strongly that she hated E.T.

I used to call you on my cell phone therunoutgrooves.substack.com/p/i-used-to-... Drake, Live Aid and Simply bloody Red again.

A long-overdue update to my England goalscorers chart for 20+ goals: Harry Kane is now in the 90s. Every goal plotted against the opponent’s kick-off Elo, plus a breakdown of goals against sides rated above 1,900. Saka, Rashford and Beckham added too.

Less than a week to vote in the Run Out Grooves readers' poll: the best closing tracks of the 2000s. 200 albums on the long list - Pick up to ten, add honourable mentions, or write in the one we missed. Closes Monday 12 October, therunoutgrooves.substack.com/p/readers-poll-lets-all-meet-up-in

Kemi Badenoch has said that Edinburgh is the UK's 'second city' - a view shared by only 12% of Britons Instead the public split between 34% Manchester vs 30% Birmingham, with answers depending heavily on where people live yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

Our 2000s album-closers poll now runs a week longer, to Mon 12 Oct. It's tight at the top, and almost all tracks have been voted on. Still waiting: The Streets, Beck, Nas, Sleater-Kinney. Five minutes to vote: therunoutgrooves.substack.com/p/readers-poll-lets-all-meet-up-in

Can't believe Richard E Grant allowed that episode to go out.

One ballot this morning rescued Bowie, Tom Waits, Steely Dan and Common from zero in the 2000s album-closers poll. 172 of 200 tracks now have a vote. Still waiting: The Streets, Beck, Nas, Sleater-Kinney. Closes Mon 5 Oct therunoutgrooves.substack.com/p/readers-poll-lets-all-meet-up-in

If you are an opposition leader who could be doing better in the polls, what better way to move those polling numbers than to be on the wrong side of emerging public opinion.

Liquid Bluesky

“Tap, tap, tap at the window. Bloody AI Greta Garbo, trying to sell me ball bearings.”

It's tight at the top of the 2000s album-closers poll: Overnight ballots reshuffled the top three. 167 of 200 tracks now have votes, including Jay-Z. Still waiting: Bowie, The Streets, Beck, Nas, Tom Waits. Closes Mon 5 Oct therunoutgrooves.substack.com/p/readers-poll-lets-all-meet-up-in

A clear leader has emerged in the 2000s album-closers poll. 157 of 200 tracks now have a vote. Still waiting: Jay-Z, Bowie, The Streets, Beck, Nas, Tom Waits. And 2008 is still at the bottom of the years. Closes Mon 5 Oct therunoutgrooves.substack.com/p/readers-poll-lets-all-meet-up-in

Can the arts business model survive AI? Perhaps the best guide is to look at how the arts survived past tech revolutions Take music—internet piracy and then streaming killed the lucrative CD market, but musicians mostly saved their jobs by focusing much more on live concerts

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*blackadder theme* His head is bigger than a fence He breathes, and everything gets warmer His urge to trample represents A nation's nuclear war trauma Godzilla! Godzilla! The scourge of beast and man! Godzilla! Godzilla! He's flattening Japan!

132 of the 200 closers in the 2000s poll now have a vote. Coldplay and Britney are off the mark. Still waiting: Jay-Z, Bowie, Dylan, The Streets, Interpol, Beck, Nas, Tom Waits. And 2008 is still the decade's least-loved year. therunoutgrooves.substack.com/p/readers-poll-lets-all-meet-up-in

Alberta’s self-image as world’s only rat-free region shattered by discovery of rat

@tomewing.bsky.social just watching this and baffled that Le Tigre have almost as many streams as The Bad Touch. youtu.be/8_ZLlyBfZ_I?...

When was the last time our Secretary of State for Culture displayed anything approaching this degree of public enthusiasm for our world-class arts industry? Has she been seen anywhere? Given impending charter renewal... did she even bother to visit a single prom?

New leader overnight in the 2000s album-closers poll. 111 of 200 tracks now have a vote; still waiting: Coldplay, Jay-Z, Bowie, Dylan, The Streets, Interpol. Closes Sun 5 Oct therunoutgrooves.substack.com/p/readers-poll-lets-all-meet-up-in

#BPHM8689 is IMMINENT (Saturday for noms) Here are the GUIDELINES including the BANLIST! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

83 of the 200 closers in the 2000s poll now have at least one vote. Still waiting for their first: Kanye, Taylor Swift, Coldplay, Jay-Z, Bowie, Dylan, Blur, The Streets and Portishead - last year's 1990s champions. Votes close Sunday 5 October: therunoutgrooves.substack.com/p/readers-po...

YouGov's September 2026 MRP projects that Labour would be the largest party in a hung parliament, were an election held tomorrow Labour: 241 (-170 from 2024) Conservatives: 130 (+9) Reform UK: 123 (+118) Lib Dems: 71 (-1) SNP: 40 (+31) Plaid Cymru: 15 (+11) Greens: 9 (+5) Others: 3 (-3)

@bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social some folks may enjoy the poll Easter egg here therunoutgrooves.substack.com/p/readers-po... and cast a vote for their favourite closing tracks of the 2000s.

Anfield is the best stadium in England. Not my words, Carol, the words of over 54,000 Google reviews. Where does your team's ground rank among the 92? Find out in the searchable table in here:

Exciting to hear our September cover feature on BBC Radio 4's More or Less this morning! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Thank you🙏 @timharford.ft.com @mitchellst.bsky.social Read the full article for free right here: academic.oup.com/jrssig/artic...

I'm on the wireless in about ten mins. BBC Radio 4's More or Less, just after 0920, talking to Tim Harford about why albums end quietly, the physics of vinyl, and what happened when records weren’t limited by that physics. They've put me on last. Of course they have. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/

6. As far as we can see, the rescuer was okay - though this is bordering on attempted murder. RNLI then headed towards the Solent, AIS off and chased by the far-right. Authorities in Portsmouth likely were warned that people would be offloaded and processed at Gosport, so Thomas rallied activists.

MP Recall 🏛️ I named 32/649 current MPs in five minutes. 🟥 18/403 LAB 🟦 7/118 CON 🟧 3/71 LD 🩵 3/8 REF 🟪 1/2 YP Can you beat me? toys.jamesomalley.co.uk/mprecall/ Thwarted by the Minister for Women and Equalities and where the double letters are/aren't

Why does he simply not sack the canteen staff?