From Burning Shed:
💯- of course it is - well deserved - love it.
🗺️ - wait what - need to go look that one up.
🎧 - need to revisit and remind
Have I missed non missable entries?
And now, it’s that time of year again where we present the only chart that matters: the Burning Shed 2025 best sellers.
- Steven Wilson - The Overview 💯
- Jethro Tull - Curious Ruminant
- Jethro Tull - Still Living In The Past
- Billy Bragg - A People’s History
- Pink Floyd - Pink Floyd at Pompeii - MCMLXXII 💯
- Big Big Train - Bard
- BEAT - Neon Heat Disease Live
- Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (50th Anniversary editions) 💯
- Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase - 10th Anniversary vinyl 💯
- Andy Summers and Robert Fripp - I Advance Masked 🗺️ - the ‘82 release or the ‘25 remix?
- Peter Hammill - The Charisma & Virgin Recordings 1971-1986
- Big Big Train - Are We There Yet?
- Loreena McKennitt - Live In Madrid
- The Pineapple Thief - Retracing Our Steps (2007-2014) 🗺️
- Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (50th Anniversary editions) 💯
- No-Man - Flowermouth - 30th Anniversary vinyl 🎧
- Bill Nelson - Studio Cadet 🎧
- Riverside - Live ID 💯
- King Crimson - In The Wake Of Poseidon 💯
- Gentle Giant - Playing The Fool - The Complete Live Experience 🎧
Be interesting to read about @numericcitizen explorations with n8n .. on my list for the new year … jumping from IFTTT directly to there seems a big jump .. but then maybe not?
🎥 Wake Up Dead Man, 2025 - ★★★★
I am a minority .. I did not like the original Knives Out … at all. So heaven only knows why I watched the second - which I liked even less - so what possessed me to watch the third? No idea - but so glad that I did. Finally the franchise delivered.
In other words, some of the factors that make a successful foreign war unlikely push towards the strategy of inviting turmoil into the United States and then seeking to use it.
💬 Timothy Snyder
🔗 The Weird Part Was the Platforms
The weird part isn’t that the indie web exists. It’s that we ever thought centralised platforms were a better idea.
“If the wedding photographer can’t deliver more magic than the phone in my guest’s pocket, no thanks.”
“And if the local print shop can’t set type better than my Mac, I’ll move on.
" So is your copywriting, research, illustration or coding better than I can get from the AI on my desk? "
🔗 T.S.A. Is Providing Air Passenger Data to Immigration Agents for Deportation Effort
.. for marination purposes.
🔗 🎶 Frankie Goes To Hollywood / Welcome to the Pleasuredome
The whole album - but for me ….
Steven Wilson has created **a unique 12-inch mix **of the song ‘Welcome to the Pleasure Dome’, called the ‘Supernova’ mix. This runs for exactly 30 minutes and like the instrumentals is only available on this blu-ray audio!
.. would love to hear that.
🔗 🎶 The 47 Songs With the Longest No. 1 Streaks on the Billboard Hot 100
… more interesting are the artists and records NOT on that list.
🔗 The Opposite of the Drive Thru Window - Now I Know
Well - now I certainly do know …. but more importantly - a spin on food delivery buried towards the end ….
Burger King delivered [the food] directly to their car via motorcycle
💬 WaPo
Bottoming out the story …
‘Poorer people pay taxes so that governments can subsidise richer people to build things that they then price outside what poorer people can afford.”
A Better Headline?
Subsidies for rich people’s infrastructure, paid by poor people’s taxes.
🔗 The thing about chess | Seth
… maybe there should be. I mean if they can muck around with Cricket - why not Chess?
the tools are only as good as the questions we ask them.
I like the line - but I particulalrly like the page he links to.
‘Web’ means something. It’s about creating networks between writers. When it’s allowed to work remarkable things can be accomplished. Most people who think they’re using the web have never used it. The original web is still very much here, ready for us to start building on it again.
And …
“Most people who have never heard of RSS use it every day.”