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going to try and keep this one unlocked. will be lots of sports/music/toronto/kamloops stuff on here. he/him/il/הוא
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a guy currently on a nuclear submarine was playing crusader kings 3, bragged about it on the subreddit for the game, and leaked his location. it may not match the war thunder forums in quantity but it’s up there in quality
January 23, 2026 at 3:52 AM
This album was originally sold to me as sounding 'somewhere between John K Samson and Wild Pink', would recommend if that is anywhere close to as big a selling point for you
January 23, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Friday 5x5: finished up the 40 albums from 2006, was sent a top 10 list of Quebecois albums, and bought my first concert tickets of the year
January 23, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Saw this and got kind of worried we're either at or near a Waxahatchee saturation point.

Having listened I can say I'm not there yet
January 21, 2026 at 4:11 AM
A problem with the @pitchfork.com subscription that was not a problem for @stereogum.com - the free account is better: "But to … see the reader scores, and comment yourself or read the comments of others, you’ll have to smash subscribe." pitchfork.com/news/a-new-e...
A New Era for Pitchfork: Introducing Reader Scores and Commenting
After 30 years, we’re expanding the role readers have in our music criticism and giving you full access to the reviews archive
pitchfork.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Friday 5x5: 8 2026 albums, 8 2006 albums, 9 anything else
January 16, 2026 at 3:49 PM
I would pay at least double the standard fees for an option during leadership elections to 'join this party but not our mailing list'
January 16, 2026 at 9:45 AM
If this is as good as the singles + premature premature evaluations suggest it is, I may have my #1 album of 2026 locked up in February
January 14, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Friday 5x5: restarted the 1001 albums generator
January 9, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Lawyers getting in trouble for using hallucinating AI in submissions isn't new anymore, but I've never seen one with a 100% error rate. It's honestly impressive how bad Grok was at this.

[10] Not a single proposition of law in any of the applicant’s materials is supported by a reliable authority.
January 8, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Switched fully over to Tidal this week. I missed the audio control but there are definitely still some kinks to fix
January 4, 2026 at 9:44 PM
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This is quite an important point; if you are a UK citizen with Twitter on your phone, opening it up is like playing Russian roulette that the algorithm might commit a strict liability offence on your behalf.
Has everyone whose scroll the illegal image appeared on also committed an offence by downloading it? This is one of those AI worst case scenarios that ought to make everyone aware of the current direction of travel.
January 2, 2026 at 12:03 PM
Oh and Friday 5x5 has a few honourable mentions that missed the cut, everything after the first album only has one play
January 2, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Some general thoughts on the year:
- There were a bunch of new or new-to-me artists who put out albums good enough to make up for releases by some musicians I would have expected to be locks for the list before the year started. I'd call them disappointing over bad, but some unexpected steps back.
Of the 651 albums I listened to, here's my top 50 albums of 2025:
January 2, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Of the 651 albums I listened to, here's my top 50 albums of 2025:
January 2, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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A List of Predictions Made in 1926 About 2026

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January 1, 2026 at 5:13 PM
The Hoosiers are the only team that can save us from a 16 team playoff (if the bye is a problem they should go to 8)
January 1, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Listened to 651 albums this year (+68 from last year), mapped out
298: 🇺🇸
100: 🇨🇦
71: 🇬🇧
50: 🇦🇺
10: 🇸🇪
9: 🇮🇪
8: 🇳🇿
7: 🇯🇵
6: 🇳🇬
5: 🇧🇷🇩🇪
4: 🇨🇱🇩🇰🇸🇬🇺🇦
3: 🇨🇴🇬🇭🇬🇹🇮🇹🇳🇪🇰🇷🇪🇸
2: 🇦🇷🇲🇱🇲🇽🇳🇴🇵🇱🇵🇹🇵🇷🇷🇺🇺🇳
1: 🇦🇴🇧🇪🇨🇩🇪🇬🇸🇻🇪🇹🇬🇷🇭🇳🇮🇸🇮🇩🇮🇷🇰🇿🇳🇱🇵🇦🇵🇪🇸🇳🇸🇮🇿🇦🇹🇿🇹🇭🇹🇳🇻🇪
January 1, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Knew I hit a high for newly released albums this year (651 > 623 in 2023) but turns out I also listened to the most music (since 2014 when I started regularly using lastfm again) by a couple thousand plays

Would not have guessed it was higher than 2023 (my last full year of WFH)
January 1, 2026 at 6:41 AM
Home Is Where - Hunting Season (2025)
January 1, 2026 at 3:11 AM
What did Blackwood promise the team for getting Binnington pulled in the first?
January 1, 2026 at 2:20 AM
Remembering when Corrine Schroeder played her way onto team Canada for the 2024 rivalry series ahead of Kristen Campbell despite Campbell being the starting goalie for Canada's GM and Head Coach's PWHL team today for some reason or another
December 31, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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2022 🤞
December 30, 2025 at 8:12 PM
This new format is better and much easier to use but it ends the era of tracking how much faith Stereogum had in Masochism actually coming out (#5 most anticipated in 2021, #4 in 2022, #3 in 2023, #9 in 2024). RIP.
December 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Friday 5x5: mostly to avoid breaking the streak, nothing new or unexpected on here
December 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM