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mattcolbeck.bsky.social
Research: reps of Disorders of Consciousness/brain injury/BI & homelessness. Author: "The Language & Imagery of Coma & Brain Injury", Bloomsbury. Founding member: Head Injury & Homelessness Research Group (HIHRG). Bassist with @lost-teeth.bsky.social
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Thanked my 8yo for a lovely Father’s Day. ‘So when is it Child’s Day?’ he said. ‘That’s everyday’ I replied.

submitted 15 hours ago • 5 comments

Happy Fri the 13th b/day to me! I finally get to launch my film series reboot feat. serial killer Jason Voorhoff (Hoffhees? I'll iron-out details later!) Mint prezzies! Can't wait to unleash mayhem w/the Sunn O))) Life Pedal 🤘 #horror @ericlarocca.bsky.social @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social #Breaking

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

🌲Ed Sheeran explains to Louis Theroux that he dislikes private jets and prefers trains because "I like the environment, I like trees." We know that this type of messaging from celebrities is hugely impactful. We need far more of this from more stars. As posted by @nowthisimpact.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 49 comments

Israel is out of control. And it has been for a long time. For Starmer to talk about de-escalation whilst continuing to support a genocide is increasingly absurd - and dangerous.

submitted 3 days ago • 34 comments

Gutted that our gov would rather enable tech bro thievery than support artists & the creative industries. There is no ethical way to use generative AI. It's made from stolen material. It's awful for the environment, unsecure & makes up crap! Its spread is not and never was inevitable. It's a choice.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

For us Stoke-on-Trent metalheads, it's Lemmy (this rather wonderful statue was sculptor Andy Edwards was unveiled recently in Lemmy's birthtown of Burslem); and Slash, who was raised for a while in Stoke and still speaks fondly of it. For everyone else, it's Robbie Williams.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

submitted 367 days ago • 1357 comments

I do not understand telling creatives to "shut up about politics." One, this is life in this world. You can acknowledge being part of it, or you can pretend you're immune until you find out you're wrong. Two, there are plenty of creatives doing the latter. If you don't like us, follow them 🤷‍♀️

submitted 4 days ago • 22 comments

"By way of credentials, Harrison was in the room when it happened. Unfortunately, in this case, it was the torrid sessions for Dig Out Your Soul, the last Oasis studio album". Superb (& laugh-out-loud) piece in @thequietus.com about the glut of Oasis books piggybacking off their bloated comeback.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Absolutely this. 👇👇👇

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

10 yrs ago labour and tories agreed that self id was the right thing to do it was reported in the press, correctly, as a mild change to some bureaucracy the american religious right started spreading a conspiracy about us, in response to gay marriage being legalised, and columnists got sucked in

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

😂

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I'll tell you what I find hilarious... Elon is on his best behavior around autocrats, because they can instantly do things for him if they like him. And he loathes democracies, because they can't. So he replaces US democracy with an autocrat of his own, but the one he installed doesn't like him.

submitted 10 days ago • 20 comments

Musk no longer in love with someone he is suggesting is a pedophile

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

submitted 10 days ago • 533 comments

It's a Venetian Snares kinda day... open.spotify.com/album/1GcVux...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

btw half of my cis friends are in their 50s and 60s. transphobia is not a generational difference. it's a british establishment and commentary class bigotry. it has nothing to do with age.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

Thank you to @mslexia.bsky.social for including this feature on Confingo - 'Indie in the news' - in their latest issue.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

imane khalif is a cis woman from a country that has entirely forbidden transition. this is literally just racism.

submitted 16 days ago • 9 comments

transphobia is so fundamentally stupid and anti-science i seriously cannot stand it. boxing uses weight classes.

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

This is one sick class-obsessed country

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments

Happy #Friday, everyone. My latest band, @lost-teeth.bsky.social's, debut E.P. is finally on Sp*tify so give it a spin, Bluesky chums 🤘 open.spotify.com/album/21yWVP...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Hey @gabino.bsky.social! So excited to get my hands on a copy of this repress. It's my birthday in a coupla wks so I've been dropping hints like M*sk drops Special K. Not a publication to boost, but the E.P. by my latest band, @lost-teeth.bsky.social 🙏🤘: lostteeth1.bandcamp.com/album/battle...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

The irony that my online security course for work, 'AI-Driven Phishing Attacks', was delivered by AI-generated deepfake tutors was not lost on me, ladz...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

We are currently just a few short of our target 2000 subscribers that'll help sustain The Quietus over the coming year. Will you edge us over the line by taking advantage of the huge discounts in our spring sale? thequietus.com/news/the-qui...

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

This is a lot of cis women. So many times more than the largest GC protest you've ever seen. Why are these women not worth listening to?

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments