I wished! Not even a rap-metal goatee :(

First CD I ever owned which came with the first CD player I ever owned, Christmas 1993!

Really recommend reading this piece by @kissane.myatproto.social if you are about the future of social media and decentralized networks. This piece is not just about Trump's arrival on Bluesky; it's about the state of play for the open networking sector, and the political risks it faces.

I assume it had some music stuff in there, but I don't really remember it. The angle would be a bit more 'We asked Menswear which film stars they'd shag'

I bought loads of these! It was nearly always the 'sex issue' or the 'drugs issue', or there was a reader survey on either of those topics. But I lapped these things up as an impressionable 18yo in the East Midlands

Already got them! A Saturday to boot - they know their audience

As a middle aged tired man with kids, the words 'Tortoise' and 'Matinee show'would trump one of my own children's birthdays if it came to it.

The amount of young Manics fans from school I remember carrying around the Bell Jar and whatever other other authors Richey mentioned in the lyrics to 'Faster' to impress girls is definitely more than three

Yes in the twitter era I remember him being fully blasted out of the airlock never to return, like at the end of Aliens. I missed his third act redemption somewhere

I worked in a hospital in Manchester in maybe 2004? People were still able to request their bed and IV setup to be wheeled into a doorway for a snout. Seems mental now.

I'm guessing here, but their approach feels akin to the US - likely they'd get a blowhard from GB News or similar with no foreign affairs experience if it came to it

Oh wow, of course! I very much miss that era of internet, eh

Well done mate - this has also made me feel very old. Almost 20 yrs since we were sitting in the Playlouder offices.