Tom Ewing
@tomewing.bsky.social
Music, comics, assorted grousing, he/him. CURRENT THINGS are Discourse 2000, a 2000AD blog and Popular, about the UK’s No 1 hits. I also waste my time (and maybe yours!) with @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social
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Tom Ewing
@tomewing.bsky.social
· Aug 7
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#EventsDearBoy
1. FINAL CRISIS (2008, DC)
Final Crisis is my favourite event. There are many excellent reasons for saying it isn't the *best*, but it's the one that most fulfils the promise of my first, Secret Wars: an epic story only an event could tell
#EventsDearBoy
1. FINAL CRISIS (2008, DC)
Final Crisis is my favourite event. There are many excellent reasons for saying it isn't the *best*, but it's the one that most fulfils the promise of my first, Secret Wars: an epic story only an event could tell
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I have turned this prompt into A POST - the Bluesky History Of Funny Things!
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September 16, 2026 at 5:39 PM
I have turned this prompt into A POST - the Bluesky History Of Funny Things!
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I have turned this prompt into A POST - the Bluesky History Of Funny Things!
freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2026/0...
freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2026/0...
September 16, 2026 at 5:39 PM
I have turned this prompt into A POST - the Bluesky History Of Funny Things!
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Fela Kuti — Alejandro Torrecilla (@torre.pentel), 2025
September 16, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Fela Kuti — Alejandro Torrecilla (@torre.pentel), 2025
After the JLP/Reform video I’m less interested in asylum seekers vs attention seekers in Piddington and more interested in who’s doing their PR and what else they’re promoting /tinfoilhat
September 16, 2026 at 3:02 PM
After the JLP/Reform video I’m less interested in asylum seekers vs attention seekers in Piddington and more interested in who’s doing their PR and what else they’re promoting /tinfoilhat
Tuxedo pooh voice: ah yes the real final
The Best Album of 2001 Round 7 (Third-Place Match) Match #127
#2 The Strokes, IS THIS IT
VS.
#5 Björk, VESPERTINE
Go here to vote: forms.gle/JhgTwkJA7HvT...
#2 The Strokes, IS THIS IT
VS.
#5 Björk, VESPERTINE
Go here to vote: forms.gle/JhgTwkJA7HvT...
September 16, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Tuxedo pooh voice: ah yes the real final
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People come up to me and say can't we just do a whole tournament of third-place matches and I say Yeah baby yeah! but the Man won't let me, it's too powerful, they're afraid of its Power
September 16, 2026 at 2:11 PM
People come up to me and say can't we just do a whole tournament of third-place matches and I say Yeah baby yeah! but the Man won't let me, it's too powerful, they're afraid of its Power
I have seen both the series that were big winners at the Emmys, this is the most culturally engaged with TV I have been in about 35 years
September 16, 2026 at 1:33 PM
I have seen both the series that were big winners at the Emmys, this is the most culturally engaged with TV I have been in about 35 years
This is what I keep coming back to - Sheeran’s image really sits on him being a good honest bloke and this is him picking an adjacent “I don’t really think about that kind of thing” blokedom rather than “I don’t bang on about it but I know what’s right”
But like, a huge part of his appeal is that he's a singer-songwriter who was seen as having emotional integrity, even if he was always an unabashed mass culture populist, and now nothing he says is going to sound honest, ever again
September 16, 2026 at 11:53 AM
This is what I keep coming back to - Sheeran’s image really sits on him being a good honest bloke and this is him picking an adjacent “I don’t really think about that kind of thing” blokedom rather than “I don’t bang on about it but I know what’s right”
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It takes a special skill to make your first contribution on an actual "culture" issue in 11 months and have it be defending Ed Sheeran.
He’s really, really not, Lisa. The path in front of him was wide open. Instead, he sucked up to the billionaire. Much like the Labour Party… oh.
www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
Ed Sheeran in an ‘impossible position’ over Macklemore Gaza row, says Lisa Nandy
www.independent.co.uk
September 16, 2026 at 10:32 AM
It takes a special skill to make your first contribution on an actual "culture" issue in 11 months and have it be defending Ed Sheeran.
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Fair play to the wife of a Caribbean man and mother of mixed race children being informed by the BBC reporter that she’s in the minority in her community regarding immigration and responding with, “Yes, I’m surrounded by bigots.”
September 16, 2026 at 10:21 AM
Fair play to the wife of a Caribbean man and mother of mixed race children being informed by the BBC reporter that she’s in the minority in her community regarding immigration and responding with, “Yes, I’m surrounded by bigots.”
Incredible that a circumstance has been found in which I must hand it to Lukas Graham
Lukas Graham officially quits the tour. That's literally all of Sheeran's openers.
Lukas Graham on Instagram
4,371 likes, 248 comments - lukasgraham on September 15, 2026
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September 15, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Incredible that a circumstance has been found in which I must hand it to Lukas Graham
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They should actually just swap each universe’s Guardians, the key to time can be controlled by pedantic blue nerds and Green Lantern can take orders from a posh Brit in a white safari suit
September 15, 2026 at 12:26 AM
They should actually just swap each universe’s Guardians, the key to time can be controlled by pedantic blue nerds and Green Lantern can take orders from a posh Brit in a white safari suit
You can see where the budget went!
The first episode of The Tripods was broadcast on this day in 1984.
September 15, 2026 at 4:48 PM
You can see where the budget went!
Mutya & Keisha & Siobhan & Heidi & Annelle & Jude
who is your favorite ship of theseus band
September 15, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Mutya & Keisha & Siobhan & Heidi & Annelle & Jude
I have lots of principles, you wouldn’t know them though they went to another school
September 15, 2026 at 3:58 PM
I have lots of principles, you wouldn’t know them though they went to another school
A thing about ‘cancelling’ is that honestly I don’t have room for more than three or four bits of knowledge about a lot of famous people and if one of them is “has shitty opinions on something I care a lot about” that’s going to become very salient
September 15, 2026 at 3:26 PM
A thing about ‘cancelling’ is that honestly I don’t have room for more than three or four bits of knowledge about a lot of famous people and if one of them is “has shitty opinions on something I care a lot about” that’s going to become very salient
This is a much less interesting match than yesterday’s even if I think one album is really good and one is okay
The Best Album of 2001 Round 6 (Final Four) Match #126
#2 The Strokes, IS THIS IT
VS.
#3 The White Stripes, WHITE BLOOD CELLS
Go here to vote: forms.gle/2BfZeoA7R6pN...
#2 The Strokes, IS THIS IT
VS.
#3 The White Stripes, WHITE BLOOD CELLS
Go here to vote: forms.gle/2BfZeoA7R6pN...
September 15, 2026 at 2:06 PM
This is a much less interesting match than yesterday’s even if I think one album is really good and one is okay
George Bush’s aide, wearily: A fourth article about the Sydney Sweeney ad has appeared on the Guardian homepage
September 15, 2026 at 12:13 PM
George Bush’s aide, wearily: A fourth article about the Sydney Sweeney ad has appeared on the Guardian homepage
I guess what I’m most on the fence with about this show is how effective the downplaying of the SF aspects has been: I never felt like the manhunter was an alien threat; Sinestro looks like a guy who’s redded up for some kind of unfathomable racist prank, etc
Caught up with LANTERNS, kind of glad that the 2016 plot seems to have wrapped as I was getting decreasingly interested in the Hal v John conflict, I like that they have kept “The Guardians are terrible bosses” as the one inviolable part of the Green Lantern mythos
New one of this was a real battle between “these people are acting very well” and “oh no it’s a flashback episode, the tv thing I hate most”
September 15, 2026 at 11:04 AM
I guess what I’m most on the fence with about this show is how effective the downplaying of the SF aspects has been: I never felt like the manhunter was an alien threat; Sinestro looks like a guy who’s redded up for some kind of unfathomable racist prank, etc
I can’t reply but science has shown that the band that best fits this bill (colossal in US, barely known in UK) may be SUBLIME
90% of huge country songs too ofc
90% of huge country songs too ofc
This sounds like a job for @tomewing.bsky.social
September 15, 2026 at 10:08 AM
I can’t reply but science has shown that the band that best fits this bill (colossal in US, barely known in UK) may be SUBLIME
90% of huge country songs too ofc
90% of huge country songs too ofc
Caught up with LANTERNS, kind of glad that the 2016 plot seems to have wrapped as I was getting decreasingly interested in the Hal v John conflict, I like that they have kept “The Guardians are terrible bosses” as the one inviolable part of the Green Lantern mythos
New one of this was a real battle between “these people are acting very well” and “oh no it’s a flashback episode, the tv thing I hate most”
Saw episode 1 of LANTERNS and honestly impressed how they’ve captured the essence of Hal Jordan as An Annoying Guy and John Stewart as Kind Of A Square and yet both are somehow enormously watchable
September 15, 2026 at 12:10 AM
Caught up with LANTERNS, kind of glad that the 2016 plot seems to have wrapped as I was getting decreasingly interested in the Hal v John conflict, I like that they have kept “The Guardians are terrible bosses” as the one inviolable part of the Green Lantern mythos
OK now I’m going to play the Bjork album! Mute this thread too
The Best Album of 2001 Round 6 (Final Four) Match #125
#1 Wilco, YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT
VS.
#5 Björk, VESPERTINE
Go here to vote: forms.gle/Q1GZmxsACQzK...
#1 Wilco, YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT
VS.
#5 Björk, VESPERTINE
Go here to vote: forms.gle/Q1GZmxsACQzK...
September 14, 2026 at 6:51 PM
OK now I’m going to play the Bjork album! Mute this thread too
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I refuse to believe that major stadium venues would have cancelled their Ed Sheeran concerts rather than allow Macklemore on the bill. There was an opportunity for Sheeran to use his commercial weight to force the issue, and he folded immediately.
September 14, 2026 at 5:11 PM
I refuse to believe that major stadium venues would have cancelled their Ed Sheeran concerts rather than allow Macklemore on the bill. There was an opportunity for Sheeran to use his commercial weight to force the issue, and he folded immediately.
My answer to this is probably Flaubert’s Dictionary Of Recieved Ideas (written in the 1870s), before that were in the wry smile zone
Spinning out of the HHG conversation, a prompt!
What is the oldest piece of media that you find intentionally very funny?
What is the oldest piece of media that you find intentionally very funny?
September 14, 2026 at 5:15 PM
My answer to this is probably Flaubert’s Dictionary Of Recieved Ideas (written in the 1870s), before that were in the wry smile zone