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That bloke who does that podcast your annoying friend keeps trying to get you to listen to. He/him. Posts every random thought in his head. AuDHD and not many filters. If you're only interested in my podcast you probably don't want to follow.
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THREAD. I can't think of many songs I've been more obsessed with in recent years than Rick Nelson's version of Summertime, which feels like the roots of garage rock. It's also fun taking it as a starting point, then tracking the evolution of its riff, and Rick's look. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSng...

submitted 1 hour ago • 12 comments

Oh, crushed by news David Thomas has died. A genius with Pere Ubu, and his solo work/Two Pale Boys albums are marvellously strange records. I’m rubbish at summing up why something is important to me, but this sound is part of my DNA. Hugely underrated artist. youtu.be/lmohpySSozc

submitted 2 hours ago • 3 comments

They won't stay Wet Leg forever. Eventually they'll be Dry Leg. Stands to reason.

submitted 1 hour ago • 6 comments

This is a measure of how far to the right Labour has moved under Starmer. Even the Evening Standard is urging people not to vote Labour in the upcoming elections because of its horrific transphobia, racism, xenophobia and ableism. Labour has *become* Reform.

submitted 2 hours ago • 18 comments

I get why this bill is divisive but I'd love to see this bc of how absurd the lineup is. When else will you get the opportunity to see Mac Sabbath, Shonen Knife, The Pogues, The Beach Boys, and Emo Phillips all in the same place?

submitted 6 hours ago • 3 comments

The falloff of the United States is incredible.

submitted 7 hours ago • 25 comments

I'll restate what I predicted for the last decade or so about #climate topics, based on my data librarianship that includes #GHG data and my general understanding of politics: 1) all important decisions are made in China 2) the US sabotages any climate agreement it's in, no matter who is in control

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

I genuinely worry that so many Americans will just go along with this, because despite our national myth, this is a nation of people who love following rules.

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Dick Durbin is retiring from the Senate at the age of 80. I wish him luck on whatever comes next, which I assume is a presidential run. by Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer

submitted 15 hours ago • 31 comments

"Attorney General shall initiate appropriate action to repeal or amend the implementing regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for all agencies" What's Title VI? "prohibits discrimination against or otherwise excluding individuals on the basis of race, color, or national origin"

submitted 9 hours ago • 103 comments

Democrats were very successful in making project 25 toxic. unfortunately, republicans just lied and said, "oh we aren't going to do that," and the media treated that pretty credulously, and here we are.

submitted 8 hours ago • 5 comments

Really wish more of y'all would've believed us.

submitted 7 hours ago • 3 comments

absolutely. unreal. but.. you know really reall

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

And every claim about Biden's mental fortitude was either "guy with a stutter does a word swap" or "journalist seething mad that the President didn't know them by name". While with Trump it's "doesn't know who the leader of the neighboring country is" and "swayed silently for half an hour at rally".

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Requested by @franzferdinand2.bsky.social. Blame him

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

Banning trans women, a group who have never had an MP, from all women's shortlists is a true victory for equality isn't it! What a result!

submitted 14 hours ago • 3 comments

“Hey, what if parties can overstep public opinion, and highlighting those oversteps can actually move opinion? That seems to be what happened. Since April 16, according to YouGov’s data, Trump’s net approval rating on immigration has fallen by 10 points.“ www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-has-...

submitted 13 hours ago • 11 comments

Just personally, if I were a pop star concerned about my image, and I'd previously had an evil scheme that led to me famously killing an elderly nun in public, I'd probably try to not do the same evil scheme again, so people wouldn't be reminded I'd done that.

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

“John, I want to pitch an episode. It’s about a pop star who’s also a predatory landlord and also went into space.” “Come on, we do the research so we have grounded sto — oh fuck you weren’t kidding.”

submitted 8 hours ago • 31 comments

Look, I never much liked her but this is unforgivably vile. Even grosser than willingly marrying Russell Brand.

submitted 9 hours ago • 8 comments

Hoi Polloi is such a weird term because something about the way it sounds seems to often trick people into using it for the exact opposite definition.

submitted 8 hours ago • 7 comments

An astronaut, a vampire and a Jane Austen hero walk into a sketch show! Catch the full second episode of The Daily Tism News, in collaboration with Turtle Canyon Comedy here! (Now contains even more autism)

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

I laughed out loud so many times! Fav line: "In Norwich, an autistic woman is making up for her lack of eye contact by occasionally staring into people's souls."

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

Since lots of people, including liberals and leftists, seem to struggle with this: COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT IS A WAR CRIME FOR A REASON. IT'S FUCKING EVIL. You don't punish people for the sins of their government or kids for the sins of their parents. And human rights belong to ALL humans.

submitted 10 hours ago • 20 comments

I get it, because the earth was much bigger then, many more time zones.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

TIL Katy Perry has financially manipulated so many old people out of their homes for her own benefit that she's got a law named after her www.forbes.com/sites/hughmc...

submitted 11 hours ago • 35 comments

Might start my own party, the Not Making Anything Worse Party. No promises to make anything better, though we'll try, but we'd promise not to take any rights away from trans or disabled people, not cut benefits, not privatise anything, not legalise big corporations taking your stuff for "AI"...

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments