Americano Grande

Less than forty-eight hours after the launch of Instagram Threads sites are already posting advice about how users can block notifications and replies. I closed my Instagram three months ago and it still feels like I'm on holiday. There are people I miss but I was watching part of them and not talking. Much as I hate being online I also love it. The cyberfuture Gen X anticipated so eagerly did not turned out as promised. Even the 'X' part has been appropriated by a billionaire clown.

To Read list: Too Far From Antibes by Bede Scott; Honeymoon to Nowhere by Akimitsu Takagi.

Listening: The War on Drugs, Sleaford Mods.

John Harris interviewed the Mods' Jason Williamson in a Caffè Nero:

"All my money was going on [cocaine], and I wasn't eating. Just drinking, and doing coke, and working. And getting sacked from jobs, and going from job to job. And that's when the psyche of Sleaford Mods started to form. I was taking note of the fact that I was failing, and taking mental snapshots of it: remembering all the times that I fucked it up and went even lower. That started to build up, and build up. I started to get curious about why I was doing it. I started to view the situations I was in as inspiring."

I got a lot of work done in the Caffè Nero in Camden.